IT'S BEEN A WHILE.... TIME FOR A LONG AWAITED UPDATE ON HERE!

Well Hello Friends & Family!!

Please forgive me for not updating this in a while. 

My Life has been a roller Coaster Lately as many of you already know that have heard from me Via Email. 

I couldn't be more excited about the direction my life is going right now. I am so excited to have some really wonderful people in my life who will go out of their way for me and continue to go out of their way for me to secure a job for me down the road when I choose to return to the downtown ymca for good. It has given me GREAT JOY! to be surrounded by such wonderful people who never wanted me to leave the downtown ymca and wanted me to stay and have begged for me to come back from the night of my last night. I can't explain the feeling in my heart right now but it's a wonderful feeling that much I know. They have re-assured me again not to worry about anything because that offer to come back still stands and there will always be room for me. 

I have thoroughly enjoyed the fight over me!!! it's been so thrilling and it FEELS GREAT!! to have someone fight over me!!! 

This week I have been called and asked to come back and work at the downtown ymca to train a new girl next week. the girl I trained 5 weeks ago Monday has quit. My heart is breaking for downtown ymca because they have been too good to me and they were already short handed. this is the 2nd time since I've been gone that they have been short handed  so my heart is really going out to them right now. 
 

I feel like I am getting a Last Night do over because even though we really got a chance to talk about everything on my last night 5 weeks ago Monday, I still feel like I never really said everything I needed to say and wanted to say to them & what I really wanted and needed to say to Buddy.  I just couldn't get out a lot of what I wanted to say because I was such an emotional wreck. I was told today that Buddy had said he new what I was thinking. He just keeps managing to touch my heart & my life every day! \


Over the years as I have said Goodbye to people I never wanted to say goodbye to, I have learned that when you have such wonderful people as the downtown ymca in your life and you have to say goodbye to them and you don't want to, Goodbye never gets easier. I know this go round of Goodbyes one last time won't be any easier, it's going to get harder. 


They have no idea what it means to me to continuesly hear how much they are missing me and how much they miss having me around there. It means more to me than they will ever ever know. 


On my last night there 5 weeks ago Monday, when they basically said that I wasn't replacable, I was brought to tears because I was reminded of my Aunt Karen who I lost to cancer in April of 2004, that's something that touched my life because it shows that I went on to take after her and didn't really even know I was taking after her  because I wasn't doing it on purpose but that's something that I will forever cherish. I am honored to know how much my aunt karen taught me about hard work ethic and how much she taught me about life. When we lost her to cancer in 2004, she wasn't replacable at her job. so that's why I was brought to tears and reminded of her. I felt her there with me and watching over me and letting me know how proud she was of me.  That was Probably the first time in years it has hit me how much I Truly miss her! This is something the downtown ymca doesn't even know because I didn't have myself a good cry until I got home.  REST IN PEACE AUNT KAREN! GONE... BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN! WE LOVE YOU & MISS YOU!  THIS IS MY TRIBUTE TO MY AUNT KAREN! 


You know you are doing something right when you have touched someone's life the way the downtown ymca has touched my life.  I wouldn't have my life any other way right now! I am loving this roller coaster ride called Life right now.  I was Ecstatic to get the phone call Monday to come back next week for a week! I was deeply touched to have the rez ymca tell me lastnight how much they need me over here but they will make do without me next week! I was ECSTATIC because on my birthday this month on Septembr 3, my mom got me a birthday cupcake and put 1 candle on it and before I blew out the candle, I made 1 wish, I wished to be able to return to the downtown ymca to work and I got my wish yesterday under very unfortunate circumstances, but God Showed up and gave me an Unexpected blessing! God shows up at unexpected times and gives us unexpected blessings! This was also an unexpected blessing for downtown ymca because they too have wished for this since the night I left. 


We have all said this week that we all know where my heart is and where I belong and that I could be happier if I was back downtown for good. I already know that back downtown is where God is leading me because I believe that God would not have shut the door on the new girl and I wouldn't have been called to come back next week for the week & I wouldn't be being begged to come back  if God wasn't preparing for me to return for good.  I'm prepared for where ever it is that God is leading me. 





God has thrown me for some loops lately, he has brought my church - The Exchange & the YMCA Together because I've got people from church Joining me and following me lead to work at different ymca locations under my leadership and God used me in A BIG WAY last Friday - he placed me infront of a girl at work who has been looking for a church and she lives in pearl and that is where The Exchange is and pearl area is the area we want to reach out to, so I handed her one of our exchange cards and told her all about the exchange, so I'm looking forward to having her join me at The Exchange! I'm excited about all that God is doing in me and through me! this is a very exciting time in my life! I'm looking forward to seeing what else God is going to do in me and through me! 


ANYWAY, CHECK IN WITH YA'LL AGAIN LATER! 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK! 

!~TARA~!