The following column appeared on January 29 1998. It was a favorite column among the readers and maybe again for those who are celebrating birthdays this month. After I delivered last week's warm thoughts column, I walked to the post office downtown where I saw someone receiving a parcel. It was her 90th birthday that day. I stood there in amazement and deep in thought as she drove away alone on this streets that were glazed with ice. I just thought here is a lady who understands what celebrating life each day really means. She really lives every day of her life.
And my mail that day came a letter from a longtime friend and reader of warm thoughts.
She related how her family and friends gave her a warm reception on her 80th birthday. She shared with me one of the readings her daughter read, and I feel you too will enjoy these warm thoughts:
Today, dear Lord, I'm 80 and there's much I haven't done. I hope dear Lord, you'll let me live until I'm 81. But then if I have finished all that I want to do, would you let me stay just a while until I'm 82? So many places I want to go so very much to see. Do you think that you could manage to make it 83? The world is changing very fast. There is so much in store. I'd like it very much to live until I'm 84. And if by then I'm still alive. I'd like to stay till 85. More planes will be up in the air. So I'd really like a stick and see what happens to the world when I turn 86. I know dear Lord, it's much to ask. And it must be nice in heaven. But I'd really like to stay until I'm 87. I know by then I won't be fast and sometimes will be late. But I would be so pleased to live till I'm 88. I will have seen so many things and had a wonderful time. So I'm sure that I'll be willing to leave at the age of 89. Maybe just one more thing I'd like to say dear Lord, I thank you very kindly. But if it's okay with you, I'd love to live past 90.
More Warm Thoughts: Life as a gift. Life is what we make it. Always has been. Always will be. Grandma Moses.
Celebrate each day of your life!
Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Ccup of Tea by Dr. Luetta G. Werner
January 15 2004
Published in the Marion Record
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