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    Practicing Patience — Where Has the Virtue Gone?

    by Annette Quarrier Mar 09, 2018 4 minutes
    patience, photograph of clock by Tristan Colangelo

    Photograph by Tristan Colangelo

    Patience is a virtue which can cultivate peace and even compassion

    —

    How many of us remember the adage: Patience is a virtue?

    A virtue, for those who need a reminder, is defined as “a behavior of high moral standards.”  Patience is defined as “the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset” (Oxford Living Dictionary).

    Now I’ll ask a rhetorical question: Who has patience anymore?

    We live in a society of instant gratification, which in my opinion, breed’s anger and frustration over any wait at all.  While I love the fact I can

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