When I first decided to try and start to begin reforming my life over eight years ago, I quit drinking for a year and adopted a "ministry of presence" practice of being at home and not working and gigging out of the home all the time. If I went fishing, I took the boys and so on.
Those changes were huge for me, but they made little practical difference to most around me. If anything, it made my presence a nuisance or even appear more detached, but I started there nonetheless.
As time has passed, the focus has been to move from mere objective presence to subjective presence and quality time, as opposed to quantitative time, at home and together. This has been a slow series of starts and stops, but seems to finally have habituated itself into a life.
Every clearing of this sort, like a new day's light, shows me that there is a whole new life waiting at every turn of conversion and I am sure there are many more lives like this one to live, but it is also special to awaken to that new day and emerge from the previous slumbers.
Of course, what this truly shows is not merely or even mostly autobiographical. Insofar as it is a testimony, it is a testimony to the truth made real that grace actually does perfect nature. That perfection is always gradual and never comes to completion in this life.
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