Week 10: Chapter 9 — Grow Through Hard Seasons

1.Casey shares her experience of pregnancy loss with striking vulnerability. How did her honesty in this chapter affect you? Did it open up something in your own experience of loss or grief?

2.She reflects that her hardest seasons — not her easiest — produced the deepest growth in her character and faith. Looking back at your own life, can you identify a hard season that, in retrospect, grew something significant in you that you couldn't have grown any other way?

3.Casey writes about the temptation, in hard seasons, to either rage at God or go completely numb to Him — and how she learned to keep tending even when tending felt pointless. Which of those two tendencies — rage or numbness — is more characteristic of how you respond to suffering?