Conversion

 What is this “action of the Holy Spirit” in Christian contemplative practice?  It is about conversion.  Conversion is painful, which is why we might allude any gifts or actions of the Holy Spirit.  In the Bible there are seven gifts of the Holy Spirit but none of them come easily.  It takes work, patience and humility. Why?  Conversion begins with self-knowledge.  Not delusional ego-focused, fear-denying knowledge.  It is more like doing the twelve steps of recovery programs.  This is why many don’t do the steps.  Too self-revealing.  The Holy Spirit works best in a deep meditation practice.  Faults we might see without such prayer, but the depth of why the faults takes the gift of patience and practice.  With the revelation that most of our difficulties are of our own making, we become humble.  Ego is downgraded.  Then comes a depth of repentance plus a sense of the powerlessness to change on our own steam.  We surrender.  Then we try to make the world a better place.