Baptized with the Holy Spirit

St. John the Baptist in the Gospel today gives us a word of hope. He says Jesus will baptize with the Holy Spirit? What does that mean?
              The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity who proceeds from the Father and the Son. Here on earth, we have encountered people who are fathers and sons and so we have some experience that can help us understand the first and second persons of the Trinity. However, the Holy Spirit is more foreign to us. Holiness is rare in our world. Furthermore, we communicate with people through our bodies and receive that communication through our senses. It is very rare for us to communicate spiritually with purely spiritual beings like angels. So, the third person of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit, is very difficult to get our minds around since our experience of holiness and purely spiritual things is very limited. So, what should we hope to receive when we are baptized with the Holy Spirit?
The best way I can put it is this. When we receive the Holy Spirit, our thoughts, energies, and desires, stop going inward and they start going outward. When you receive the Holy Spirit, you start paying more attention to others and less attention to yourself. In short, when we receive the Holy Spirit, we love more. This love generates a feeling of integrity, freedom, and joy within us. This love also gives us the capacity to not just know about another person but to really know the very core of their being. We call this phenomenon friendship. The Holy Spirit, the Love of God, gives us the capacity to develop this deep way of knowing God so that we can be friends with Him. And that is why John the Baptist was so thrilled out of his mind to recognize that Jesus was the Son of God who was going to baptize with the Holy Spirit. 
God bless,
Fr. Scott