Expectantly Waiting vs. Expectations

Galatians 5 (The Message)

(6ish) Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love*.

I'm wondering what that looks like...a satisfying relationship with the Spirit?

16-18 My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit.

I'm curious about this too? I long for this to be true about me.

 22-23 But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives...—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people...able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

I'd like to do that....

25-26 Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.

Curious how to do this as well? Or is it about waiting for His Spirit to do it within me?

*I'm wondering if this is the key somehow... trusting God's Spirit to do the work within me... and while waiting to do what I know to do... live a life of love as best I know how... but continually looking to Him to do the work internally, being surprised at the changes I find along the way...?