Patience

What makes patience a virtue? Humans live in a world constrained by time. We cannot be everything all at once. Growth takes time and built with intention progress goes slower. The virtue comes from recognizing we need time and to stop being envious of someone else’s real, or imaginative, present time. Then we can realize that it’s not the destination we seek, but the journey. Change is progress on our journey. Who we are today is the collection of the millions of steps we took before. A reward would be hollow without the personal transformation. What makes patience a virtue is faith in God’s plan for us.