Cultivate by Lara Casey

Week 12: Review & Reflection — A Life Worth Cultivating

Review your notes and journal entries from the full study of Cultivate by Lara Casey.

You have walked through the full arc of cultivation — from clearing and preparing, to planting and tending, to harvesting and celebrating — and now it is time to look back, look forward, and commit to what comes next.

Discussion Questions

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1.Looking back across the entire book, which single chapter or concept was most personally significant to you? Why that one? What nerve did it touch that others didn't?

2.At the beginning of this study, you were invited to name one expectation and one fear you were bringing into the book. How has your thinking on those two things shifted — or not shifted — over the past eleven weeks?

3.Casey's central argument is that meaningful growth is cultivated — slow, intentional, and grace-filled — not manufactured by willpower or perfected by performance. How has your understanding of growth changed as a result of sitting with this argument across the whole book?

4.Which of the cultivation stages — uncluttering, preparing soil, planting, watering, weeding, tending, or celebrating harvest — do you find most natural? Which is most difficult for you? What does the difficult one reveal about where you most need God's grace?

5.Name one specific, concrete change you have made — or begun to make — as a result of reading this book. Not an intention, but an actual action: something you have stopped doing, started doing, or begun tending more faithfully.

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Closing Prayer

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Father, we come to the end of this study with fuller hearts and, we hope, clearer eyes. Thank You for meeting us in every chapter — in the hard questions and the honest confessions, in the moments of recognition and the moments of resistance. We carry with us seeds of truth that You have been planting through these weeks. Tend them. Pull the weeds that are already trying to crowd them out. Water them with Your Spirit. Give us communities that will help us grow, and seasons of harvest that we will not rush past without stopping to worship You. We are Yours — imperfect, in-process, and deeply grateful. Grow us into the people You created us to be, for Your glory and the good of the world. Amen.

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