The Search Is Over
Author: Audrina Jones Bunton

On the journey of life, we often search outside resources to bring us happiness, fulfillment and strength.

Fame or fortune will not bring us happiness -- and although family and friends can offer strength and support at the low points in our lives, there comes a time when nothing or no one can give us what we need.

It is during this time that we must reach deep inside and find our own strengths. Reach and search your soul until you discover the magnificent being that you really are.

If you have ever conquered a fearful situation, withstood a life changing event or overcame an obstacle that threatened to destroy your existence -- the same inner strength that brought you this far -- will carry you through your life's journey.

For the happiness, fulfillment, and strength that you seek, cannot be found in the world around you, in your loved ones, or in material possessions.

The journey does not end --the search is not over -- until you search within.

The search is over -- when you search within.

Copyright © 2002 by Audrina Jones Bunton. REPRINTING THIS ARTICLE: Permission is granted to reproduce or distribute this article only in its entirety and provided copyright is acknowledged. You can find other articles to choose from at http://www.purposefully-living.com/mailing%20list.htm






--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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. 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. 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 is currently studying at the Master's Divinity School in Evansville, Indiana with a combined concentration in Biblical Counseling and IABC certification.

She also serves as the Youth Director at the Come As You Are Evangelistic Center in Aberdeen, North Carolina where her mother, Lydia Jones is the pastor.

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Click here to return to the articles summary page.