What is Patience?Patience is a virtue. I am sure you have heard this expression before. What does being patient mean? Being Patient means being willing to wait. To delay getting something small in order to get something bigger in the end. So what does that have to do with virtues? As a virtue patience is the counterpoint to the sin of wrath. Being patient means you resolve conflicts peacefully, without resorting to violence. It means showing mercy and forgiveness to sinners. Patience means not killing or being violent in any way to any thinking creature; to practice moderation of meat consumption. A patient person creates a sense of peaceful stability and community, rather than engendering suffering, hostility and antagonism.
We all know the joys of teaching a child how to wait for ice cream, or a birthday, or Christmas. But how do you teach them to resolve conflicts in a non-violent manner? Or to show forgiveness and mercy to sinners? How do we as adults create a sense of peaceful stability in our homes?
As a mother and someone who works with kids I go through these lessons every day. Kids get into squabbles every day.
We begin teaching our children as always, through how we act. When you are on the phone with someone, let’s say the electric company, do you talk to them like human beings and empathize with their situation or do lose your patience and dehumanize the person on the other end of the phone? After all, is it their fault the storm took out your power? No they are probably being swamped with calls right now.
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