Are you a planner?  Do you have long term goals? A retirement plan? Did you set out in life knowing exactly what you wanted to be when you grew up?  Did it come to fruition? Its quite humorous how we make all these plans when we have absolutely no control over our future! You see God really does have a sense of humor and many times it rears itself when our best plans are in mid-stream!

After owning a business for five years, I needed a job that provided health insurance and reliability while I attended school full-time.  For whatever reason, driving a school bus seemed like the solution. The hours were perfect, the insurance was available and I love kids!  Actually I choose to be in the company of kids over adults any day!  I began driving a Special Needs bus and fell in love with transportation.  In no time I was not only a bus driver, but also an office assistant in the transportation office.  After two years, I was offered a position in another school district as the assistant Special Needs Transportation Supervisor.  When my personal life shifted, I decided that Columbia held too many memories.  I was willing to demote myself back to school bus driver and move to Aiken for a fresh start. Two weeks prior to moving to Aiken, a supervisor's position became available in Aiken County.  I saw this as affirmation of my move and God's financial provision once again!  I set my sights on my director's position as she was scheduled to retire in March 2014.  Perfect timing, giving me three years to learn the district and hone my supervisory skills before taking over as the head of transportation for Aiken County. Then came God!

You see sometimes what we love and how much God loves us collide! They don't fit! His plan for us can change without our permission, without our consent and most times leaving us in a whirlwind.  The past two weeks have been a whirlwind for me.  You see, all the plans I made came to a screeching halt when God changed my direction, when His plans became my plans through an unexpected change.  A change, that no doubt, He orchestrated, He planned, not Mona.

Suddenly, I find myself leaving transportation.  On Tuesday, I lock my office and say to my secretary for the last time "don't call me if you need me." I say goodbye to a job I love! To kids I love and to drivers who have become family.  MY plans have been halted! What is familiar is no longer to be!  As I sat in on my first meeting with my new position, I was in awe!! Not of my new position but of God! I found myself once again in awe of God!  You see what He, in all His Divineness, has blessed me with is yet again, immeasurable.  Though I will always love transportation and each time I see a school bus, will say a prayer for that special person behind the wheel, my work is done in that arena.  God has different work for me now and I am incredibly excited and blessed to be so tight in His grip, that He changed my path at will.  I'm so grateful for Keli Holbrook for being God's tool.  I'm grateful for those special people in my life who prayed with me, over me and silently for my peace and clarity in this.  I'm thankful to walk into a corporation that lives by their mission statement:
"Our mission is to serve individuals and families through programs designed to build healthy spirit mind and body, reflecting the values of the Judeo-Christian tradition while maintaining respect for all people."

Humbled and blessed to be His!