I made a mistake. Nothing serious, and no harm done. No one seemed to notice, but my pride took a hit. I mentioned my blunder to one man and he said, “Pshaw! Don’t worry! That’s nothin’!” When I am not making a mess of things, I’ve been reading through Thomas Merton’s Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.* One of the many, small grace notes therein concerns one’s conversion to Christ … that our embrace of Christ’s will “… is not merely the conversion from bad habits to good habits, but nova creatura, becoming a totally new [person] in Christ, and in the Spirit.”