Cultivate by Lara Casey
Week 7: Chapter 6 — Tend with Patience
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Between planting and harvest lies the long, ordinary work of tending — and this chapter is Casey's honest reckoning with why patience is not passive, and why it may be the most countercultural virtue the book asks us to practice.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Casey describes the temptation to dig up a seed to check if it's growing — something every impatient gardener has done and every impatient person has done in their own life. What seeds have you dug up prematurely because you couldn't trust the process? What happened?
2.She makes the case that tending is active, not passive — it is the daily faithfulness of showing up, doing small things, and trusting that they matter. What small, unglamorous acts of tending are you being called to in this season of your life?
3.Casey writes about how our culture has conditioned us to expect instant results, and how that expectation damages everything from our relationships to our spiritual lives. Where do you feel the pull of 'instant results' most strongly? How has that expectation caused harm?