This is It!
Author: Audrina Jones Bunton

It was a beautiful spring Sunday morning, as my family and I journeyed to our weekly Sunday School. Five minutes into the ride, my husband brings the car to an unexpected halt. Startled, I look up from reading, and much to my surprise, I see a house sitting in the middle of the street. Yes, a house in the middle of a two-lane street, blocking traffic both ways. Apparently, this house had been taken from it's foundation and was being relocated.

We sat there looking, as automobile after automobile turned back around to go back in the opposite direction. Minutes passed, and my initial thought was, "We should have turned around immediately and taken an alternate route to surpass the house at the light." But still, we sat.

Inch by inch, the house was moved and minute by minute time moved. As we sat watching and waiting, I impatiently thought of ways to get around this house. But there was no way -- at least by car. Anxiously, I sat wondering what to do. Wondering, if we should chance it, by turning around, taking the alternate route, and beating the house to the light. Wondering if we should just wait to see if the movers would pick up speed and move the house at a greater pace. Inch by inch -- minute by minute -- getting nowhere fast.

Realizing that time was moving on, but we were not; a decision had to be made. We could either sit, watch, and wait, or we could find another way. The decision -- we had to find another way. "This is it," I said, "let's turn around and go the alternate route." With mutual agreement, my husband turned the car around and our journey began again . I wondered if we had made the right decision. I wondered if we should have sat and waited. I wondered if we would actually intercept the house by beating it to the light.

Hastily approaching the light, we noticed an officer directing traffic. My immediate thought was that the movers had beat us to the punch, but seeing him motion us to continue moving, rejoicing I shouted "Yes, we made it!" We had indeed made the right decision by choosing an alternate route. Happily, we continued our journey as the house became a thing of our distant past, literally.

We could have sat and waited, allowing the house, as an obstacle, to defer our journey -- but in the moment of decision, we analyzed the situation, realized that things were not going as we liked -- and did something about it.

In your moment of decision today, what is the obstacle that stands in the way of your journey? You can allow that obstacle, that thing, that person to block your purpose, to block your road to your journey of fulfillment -- or you can do something about it. Will you impatiently and anxiously continue to sit and wait to see what happens, or will you make the choice to do something to better your situation. What decision will you make today and what actions must you take?

Proclaim: This is it! I will analyze my situation, make the plans to make it better, and began to move in the right direction NOW!!

Copyright © 2003






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Motivational Speaker, Audrina Jones Bunton was born the seventh of eight children in her household in Pinehurst, North Carolina into a loving and committed Christian home. As she has 2 children, over 40 nieces and nephews and great- nieces and nephews, it is not unusual to find her under the same roof with many of her maternal five-generation family on weekends and on holidays. In her youth, she fondly recalls traveling throughout the U.S. with her family, as her parents ministered from state to state year after year—helping people as they traveled. A graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Audrina is a Competent Toastmaster of Toastmasters International and serves as the North Carolina District Sergeant At Arms. She is a former counselor of the Durham Pregnancy Support Services, a Christian-oriented crisis pregnancy center in Durham, North Carolina and is currently a Social Research Assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Audrina serves as the Youth Director at the Come As You Are Evangelistic Center in Aberdeen, North Carolina.

Modeling after a song that her mother so often sings, and one that Martin Luther King, Jr. often quoted, her life and speeches are based on the following lyrics, “If I can help somebody as I pass along, If I can cheer somebody with a word or song, If I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, Then my living will not be in vain.”

Audrina resides with her husband William, and 2 children, Audrina Lorraine and William Woodrow.

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