Our Real Hope kids spent some time reflecting on 2023 and imagining 2024. We wanted to share their thoughts with you . Please use our sentence frame and share yours with us .
Ameyah :
Looking Back on 2023
God loved me by giving me a good family and good teachers.
God grew me through my teacher and my mom.
God helped me find good friends who cared about me and will never leave my side.
Looking forward to 2024
God increase my understanding of your love for us.
God grow my mind set and my thinking abilities.
God help me show your glory and how you can change people’s lives. Help me show you that I can accomplish my goals.
Gretchen :
Looking back on 2023
God loved me by helping me love my family so much. I like to celebrate, birthdays and anniversaries with them and if I’m stuck, they will help me. They are my family and I love them.
God grew me through how I can set a better example for little kids in general, but also the kids down at the clinic.
God helped me find a better way to do things in life. Like reading Your word, and exploring the world with You right by my side.
Looking forward to 2024
God increase my understanding of You and how cool it is that You created this world that my family lives in. Help me know how powerful You are, and help me tell others that Your Son is the only way that someone can be saved.
God grow my strength in You every day and lead me to help other people to be strong in Your word.
God help me show Your love to other people and how You sent your one and only Son to die for us. Help me send out John 3:16.
Grace :
Looking back on 2023
God loved me by blessing me with such a loving and understanding family. Every year I am reminded how caring and blessed my family is.
God grew me through, showing me lessons during hard times.
God helped me find joy. God has shown me how impactful joy can be not just for yourself, but towards others as well. He’s helped me find joy in even the simplest things.
Looking forward to 2024
God increase my understanding of Your Word. I wish to better decipher the messages and lessons in the Bible, so I can better use them in my daily life.
God grow my love for those around me, not just my family and friends, but everyone I meet and encounter.
God help me show Your Light, and not to hide it, to live like it says in Matthew five.
Isaiah :
Looking back on 2023
God loved me by giving the opportunity to be with Him in Heaven through Salvation.
God grew me through prayer and love.
God help me find ways to give my time, talent and treasure to Him.
Looking forward to 2024
God increase my understanding of Your perfect power.
God grow my knowledge and understanding of You.
God help me show You and Your love through every part of my life.
