A lot has happened since my last post on the blog. The biggest news is that Homeless Court is beginning to have a lot of people accepted into the program. With very little advertising, Homeless Court is attracting many new clients that come in each week to have their tickets dismissed.
Throughout my experience of meeting with all of these people, the quality that helps me the most is patience. I try to be as patient as I possibly can with each client, and it ultimately works for the best interest of the client and me. With every client, he or she wants to tell the story behind the ticket, why the ticket was issued, what the circumstances were, and I believe that part of my service at St. Vincent de Paul is listening to the stories. The client feels twice as comfortable and more at ease when he or she is listened to and a sense of openness and appreciation is conveyed which makes the process run so much more smoothly. I try to take these lessons of patience that I have learned from St. Vincent de Paul and apply them to my personal life. It is not always easy to practice patience but the more I do, the better I become.
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