Salvation may be the moment the same life is read under a different meaning.
Nothing outward has to change immediately; what changes is the hermeneutic. Grace allows the soul to reinterpret exile as quest, wound as initiation, loss as threshold, and history as pedagogy.
Salvation is the awakening from a dark dream of a fearful myth and into a loving, beautiful dream of the hero in a totally loving, joyful world/reality.