Is the Spirit’s direction, provided through a Spirit-led spiritual director, supposed to replace struggles and failures with a consuming experience of God’s intimate presence? Or does Holy Spirit–led spiritual direction somehow awaken and energize the faith we need to persevere on the narrow road when we doubt, to find God’s strength in our weakness, to do good though bad still corrupts our efforts, to live with unflagging hope when despair threatens to drown us in futility, to “live thirsty” with a thirst only heaven will fully quench?
