Slow and Gradual change

Recently (as in the past several months or so) I've had this slow but steady river flowing through me.  And it's been this, like, unprecedented level of will-power and self-control.  And I can't really explain it better than that.  It's like, all of these things that I've thought about for years or months or however long as being good habits to start, or bad habits to stop, I've actually been doing them!  It wasn't like I sat down one day and went "I'm going to change lots of things in my life all at once."  It just kind of happened.  Oh, today I'm going to start doing this.  A couple days later: I'm going to stop doing this.  And so on and so forth.  This isn't to say that I haven't fallen of the wagon on some good habit I had going, or completely succeeded in stopping a bad habit, but it's a start.  And an actual start after 20 years of trying is something to be celebrated.  I don't know where this self-control came from, as it certainly wasn't from me, but my only explanation is God working in me.  For which I am profoundly thankful.