re-adjustments

I'm amazed at how quickly I have been able to jump back into my "normal" life... I just got home from a trip to Israel less than a week ago and I am already feeling fully re-adjusted to our time-zone, and comfortable picking up where I left off...
My trip was incredible. It was incredibly challenging in a physical sense, and incredibly enlightening into Jewish culture, First Century living, and a deeper understanding of the character of the God that I serve and love. It wasn't one of those; spiritual high, fall on your knees and cry out, rock your world for the weeks that you're there type of experience for me. For me it was a steady gaining of knowledge, understanding, and appreciation. Knowledge of Jewish culture, and the lifestyle that a Jew would have a lived in the first Century. Understanding of why the Bible, and Jesus in particular, use certain things as symbols, and an understanding of how Jesus fulfilled every prophecy and every promise from God. And an appreciation for the intense, passionate love that the Triune God has for us.
And yet with my new-found knowledge, understanding, and appreciation, I'm having a hard time knowing exactly how this should translate in my life back home. In Kelly. I have a much better picture of how Jesus lived his life, but in my life today, how can I mirror this? It is much harder than I expected to transform the areas in my life that were brought to light as needing some t.l.c while I was on the trip. It's much easier to just settle back in to the old way, the comfortable way, that I was living.
I guess the one thing, and I suppose I should take this as at least some progress, is that I am more sensitive to the times and opportunities that I should be entering Shephelah and being a city on a hill. I think my conscience has gotten stronger when it comes to showing those around me who don't know Jesus, how he might have reacted. I'm not saying I'm always good at it, but it's going somewhere.
For now I have to keep praying and reading. I know that God gave me this trip for a reason and I know that I have the ability to let this change my life for the better. Here I go :)