LIVING THE SPIRITUAL PERFECTIONS

I decided that this year I am going to try to practice the spiritual perfections of patience, generosity, gratitude, forgiveness, loving-kindness. I decided to begin with patience. The definition of patience is "Possessing or demonstrating quiet uncomplaining endurance under distress or annoyance." Uncomplaining, now that is the word I am having trouble with.  Even though I may not verbalize my impatience, I have, I am ashamed to say been seen  sighing deeply, rolling my eyes and shifting my weight from leg to leg as if I am suffering in silence. My attitude and body language can speak way louder then words. Since I have been paying attention to this perfections for over four days now, I had been telling my husband of my success at patience and told him that I was sooo patient with the slow bank teller. I smiled and waited for praise. He asked me if there was a line. I said no. He said it did not count. I don't want to stay too long on patience because the world is sure to give me more and more to be patient about. I have to learn this one good and fast so I can move on to other more interesting perfections. What about you tell me about your patience level..