Reader's Guide for Hope Springs

1. Do you enjoy gardening? Who taught you to garden? What do you love about gardening?
2. How do you feel about a minister going into therapy? Does that make them a better pastor or a worse one, in your opinion?
3. Margaret faces cancer. How important is having friends when facing a health crisis?
4. What is the most important thing a friend can do for you when you are sick?
5. Think of a time that someone did something special for you when you were facing a difficult time.
6. If you to use the image of a garden to describe your spiritual life, what would be growing in it? What would be missing?
7. What helps you grow spiritually? What are the things you do in your spiritual life that help your “garden” grow?
8. What does cancer or any other serious illness do to one's spiritual garden?