CONVERSATION WITH GOD AT AGE 90

(On my 90th birthday June 22, 2015)

Dear Lord, when I was 80, there was much that I hadn't done.

I hoped, Dear Lord, that You'd let me live until I was 81.

But then—I still hadn't finished all I wanted to do—

So I asked for a little while longer, until I was 82.

So many places I wanted to go, so very much to see, I said

Do You think that You could manage to make it 83?

The world was changing very fast, there was so much in store,

I asked a further favor—to sample life when I was 84.

By then, since I was still alive, 
I asked if I could stay around until I was 85!

Exciting things kept going on, and I really hoped to stick

Around to see what happened in the world when I turned 86.

I knew, Dear Lord, that it was going to be spectacular in Heaven!

But I really wanted to stay on Planet Earth until I reached 87.

By then my legs didn't move so fast, and sometimes I'd be late,

Still there was so much joy in life to experience when I was 88.

Dear Lord, You've given me so many blessings,

and I've had such a wonderful time,

That I might have been willing to leave for Heaven 

at the ripe age of 89.

Just one more thing I'd like to say:

Dear Lord, I do appreciate all those bonus decades

in which You've been generously blessing me

And I thank You very kindly—

But if it's still OK with You,

I'd love to live past 90

if You still have some work for me to do!

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Author: Ann Onymous (Unknown author!) but Leona predictably souped it up/adapted it a bit

The sweet gal who originally sent this to me continued living and loving life, still alert, joyful in the Lord, a great encourager and prayer partner—

who kept pushing the envelope with God—asking for MORE—

until she was 104!