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I struggle with impatience. I think a lot of people do. I’m also Catholic, so I have to bring up my impatience pretty much every time I go to confession. Once, the priest gave me advice to the effect of, “Try to practice patience.” I’m not sure why no one had said this to me before, but it did help me realize that patience was something that could be improved. Unfortunately, I tend to have difficulty applying big ideas to the small details of everyday life. Books I have with read talk about general strategies that you apply to a variety of situations to practice patience.

I have been thinking about the different facets of patience and I believe there are multiple reasons that a person may act impatiently. I’m going to try, on this blog, to give a real life examples of ways to practice patience. A little story about something I tried that worked, and maybe what facet of patience I think it might strengthen. We shall see how this goes!

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