The Reformative Steps of Transformation’s Journey

Change never materialises in an instant.

In fact, it takes millions of seconds, days of drudgery mapped across a landscape of challenge, opportunity and mundanity before that magical portal of transition is passed through into a glorious promised land.

Every step is encoded in choice. We chose the pain of getting better or accept the pain of staying the same. Hidden deep beneath our teeming conscious mind; a slow, soundless dialogue flows between our now self and our past self, promoting us to take one step closer to our future self.

Part of our recovery from setback “is to make the choice to stand and live in the now instead of the then of yesterday” (TD Jakes). Our essential self (who we really are in unguarded moments when now one is looking but that everyone sees), is our constant companion in the middle ground of mundanity.

There is a crucial ‘meeting in the middle’ of old and new - an intense inner construction of rebuilding, reforming, renewing, refreshing. Old things have to pass away before all things can become new.

Sometimes it might feel like your feet are as firmly planted as it can be at the seashore. Nothing really changes yet everything is shifting as the waves sweep in between and all around you. And as surely as the tides change, as surely as the sun hops, skips and jumps around its merry orbit, the storm clouds of uncertainty and fear shudder and break against the sheer weight of nature’s nudge and pours out showers of rejuvenation and replenishment - all over your disparaging head, filling up your circle of life right till the very last drop.

This world may be falling down all around you but you still have a choice. You still have the power to choose which direction your life will take by the picture that is held at the foremost of your mind.

Do you see an arid desert or a thriving paradise? We will never have what we want until we want what we have. It’s time to take stock, to count up those blessings, to clean out those storehouses.

“Do not be conformed to the patterns of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your minds.” The beautiful promise of change is that it causes us to reform until we are truly transformed.