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Patience in practice

 At least once in our lives we've all had to face situations where we try our best to keep our calm but everything seems to chip away at our patience. One problem occurs and while we are almost done with it, another arises. 

These are the situations in which we tend to break. We might lose our calm, panic and make other around us panicked. We might even hurt others around us due to our frustration.

However, these are the times we have to learn to be quiet. These are the opportunities that we are granted to learn the quality of being patient and peaceful. Indeed being patient is not easy; it is an aspect in which I lack too. There have been times when I have reacted too quickly to situations and eventually found out the results were not anything bad. These times I have regretted not being patient. 

When we are patient, we escape form worrying unnecessarily. When we give things time, they work out. However when we try to hurry things and worry over it and lament about it, we stress ourselves out and others around us. 

Patience is not gained in a day or after going through one issue and emerging successful. It is a learning process. As mentioned earlier it is not easy but in the future when situations are challenging and demand us to lose our peace, let us take a moment and choose to stay calm and maintain patience by God's grace, for the sake of ourselves and others. As we have heard, 'Patience is a virtue' but let us learn to put patience into practice! 

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