Reflecting on her experiences with the Holy Spirit, pastor and educator Marian Plant once wrote, “There are times when the last thing I need in my life is the activity of the Holy Spirit. That “presence” of God which has a way of seeping into the psyche and unsettling one’s accepted ways of carrying on life. That manifestation of the Holy which alights on one with the innocence of a summer firefly, but whose motive is to transform the unsuspecting believer into something akin to a fiery dragon on behalf of God. No thanks to the Holy Spirit, I have several causes which haunt me daily, causes which I alone cannot solve of course, but for which I have been conscripted. The more aware I am of the circumstances, needs, and enormity of the causes, the more compelled I am to stay involved with th…