Reflecting on Virtues: Patience


Patience is the open attitude of expecting the best regardless [or is it through?] the defects, slow-paces of others. It is the capacity to retain the openness of mind in order to notice the small things of life which, in the frenzied speed of our world, tend to skip our notice. In a world like ours, everything is fast-paced and people are even more impatient.

There is a clear contradiction in that. While in the past things were slower, people were more patient. Now in this fast-tracked world, we seem to go ahead of the speed of our own gadgets. One would expect us to be more patient since we know that things will surely come at their own pace.

Impatience is a way of being absent-minded. The patient person is aware of details and tends to let each detail unfold completely. The rhythm of life for a patient person is found in nature itself. There is no that terrible urge for a faster process for everything. Even in the spiritual sphere, patient people are not impatient with God, who tends to act oblivious of our sense of time. A person with the staying power does see wastage of time in the waiting, he snatches that opportunity to test his fortitude. He is serene through the process.

In fact, it does not pay to be edgy. What pays is focus born out of patience. The patient person is more tolerant, more forgiving, more loving, and tends to make friends with many.
In a very clear way, St. Paul enlists Patience among the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Gal 5:22-23. We need to ask the Holy Spirit for this grace.

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