It's a Beautiful day in the neighborhood....

a beautiful day in the neighborhood, could you be mine, would you be mine, won't you be my neighbor?

This theme song reminds me of a simple time. A time where my Saturday's consisted of sleeping in, Captain Crunch cereal, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood and Captain Kangaroo. My summer full of family vacations and making mud pies. A time when my brother and I would lay in bed and read for hours.
I've been reflecting a lot on my childhood, maybe it's because I'm a Children's Pastor or because I am remembering how young I was and had so many ambitions in life and thought the world of everyone I met.
But I'm not a child anymore and I have been so disappointed in people. I do my best to think the most of everyone, but there are times now as an adult that the wool has got to come off and I have to see people for who they really are. People are going to disappoint each other, but at what point can we just "grow up" and move past it all??
We're not kids anymore, we're not in high school anymore. We're adults. It's time to mature and stop hurting each other and degrading each other to make ourselves feel better. What's done is done. No going back. The past can't be rewritten, you get the life you're given, some pages turned, some bridges burned, lessons learned. (Thank you, Carrie Underwood) So readers, it is time to take my own advice.....