I Quit

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation ..... as an adult. 

I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an eight-year old again. 

I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four-star restaurant. 
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle sending them across the oceans of my imagination. 
I want to think M&Ms are better than money simply because you can eat them. 
I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day and go swimming in the pond - the one with the  'No Swimming' sign.

I want to return to a time when life was simple; when all I knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes. A time when I was protected by my own ignorance, because I didn't know what I didn't know and what is more, I probably wouldn't have cared. 

All I knew was how to be happy because I was blissfully unaware of all the things that could make me worried or upset. 

I want to believe again that the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good and trustworthy. 
I want to believe again that anything is possible.

I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be over-excited by the little things. 
I want to live in that simple, superficial place again, where life does little more than skim the surface like a well aimed stone that skips across a lake.
I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork or depressing news. I don't want to know how to survive for more days in the month than there are dollars in the bank. I wouldn't miss the doctors bills, the gossip or the frailty that edges me away from my innocence. I want to hear no more of the loss of loved ones. 

I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs and the kind word. I want to believe that 'kissing it better' really does. I want to have faith in truth, justice and peace. I want to trust in dreams and mankind. I want to have the hope that grown-ups really are making a better world for us all to live.

I want to make angels in the snow. 

So... here's my checkbook and my car keys; my credit card bills and the two Hundred and twenty-seven accompanying statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss the matter further, you'll have to catch me first, because....... 

"Tag! you're it."

Such a blessing it is that I am still a child in the eyes of our Lord.