INTRODUCTION: How is your garden looking so far this year? What do you plan to grow this year?

READ: Genesis 2:5-9,15, Revelation 21:1-5, 22:1-2

Begin the time by praying together

DISCUSS
1. How do you imagine the garden of Eden?
2. The Garden is a place of: beauty, life, purpose, and God’s presence. What place do you imagine or have like this in your life? How are you searching for these 4 things?
3. When have you felt like you have lost your purpose? What helps to ground you and rediscover your purpose?
4. What experience have you had where God has given you back a dream that you thought was lost but it was given back even better?
5. When we see the New Jerusalem, we will be in God’s presence, what do you imagine this will be like? (Read Revelation 21:1-5, 22:1-2)
6. The leaves in the original Garden of Eden were fig leaves to cover shame and nakedness, in the New Jerusalem He uses leaves to provide healing. What type of leaf do you identify more in your life right now?

PRAYER: Lord cultivate and restore us so we can grow and be whole again.