What's in a plan???

Have you ever pulled out your phone to input an appointment.  Or are you a dinosaur like me and still carry one of those old fashioned day-timers?  I joke that if it is written down I will remember to do it.  If it isn't written down, well, i'm up a creek. So, in case you haven't caught on the idea of planning is a huge deal to me.  I plan what to wear to work the night before.  I plan my lunch and pack it the night before (or at least I try to most the time.)  I plan what to do on my day's off.  I plan for the weekends when I have Paityn. I am a major planning kind of girl.  What in the world am I to do then when there isn't a plan or when the plan just flat out fails.

Friday of last week I was sitting at my desk when my manager and the manager of a department that I had been doing a special project for came to me and said they needed to speak to me in the office.  Anyone in my job knows that the office automatically means it is serious.  After several minutes of talking I was informed that my department had been deemed as being overstaffed and that I was being transferred to a new team.  This change would take effect Monday.  To say that I was shocked would be an understatement.  This rattled my weekend and left me feeling lost.  I believe the main reason was because my PLANS were changed.  "My plans" being the key words here.

As I sat at home this weekend and pondered what exactly was going on, a verse that many of us know well came to mind. Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the PLANS I have for you, declares the Lord, PLANS to prosper you  and not to harm you, PLANS to give you hope and a future."  Wow, you mean that even when my plans are destroyed there is still a plan?  I can't even begin to explain how that brought comfort to me.  Comfort to my heart.

The last two days have been spent with two different teams making announcements of this change.  Meeting with my new boss, meeting my new team, training with my new Senior Rep, learning more of my new job.  These are all things that I didn't plan on having to do this week.  Things that I am sure a week ago I would have been irritated to have to do.  However, tonight as I sit on the couch and reflect on these days I am excited to know that this new adventure is all part of God's plan and that I can rest assured that even when my day-timer might not have much to say about this time, God's has a whole section full of what is in store for me next.