In the financial world: A borrower who is willing but unable to make payments, and who does not qualify for a deferment, may request forbearance from the lender.

In the spiritual world, Corinthians and Coleridge say it best:

Forebearance
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834)

(Beareth all things.—1 Cor. xiii. 7.)

Gently I took that which ungently came,
And without scorn forgave : Do thou the same.
A wrong done to thee think a cat’s-eye spark
Thou wouldst not see, were not thine own heart dark.
Thine own keen sense of wrong that thirsts for sin,
Fear that–the spark self-kindled from within,
Which blown upon will blind thee with its glare,
Or smother’d stifle thee with noisome air.
Clap on the extinguisher, pull up the blinds,
And soon the ventilated spirit finds
Its natural daylight. If a foe have kenn’d,
Or worse than foe, an alienated friend,
A rib of dry rot in thy ship’s stout side,
Think it God’s message, and in humble pride
With heart of oak replace it ; thine the gains–
Give him the rotten timber for his pains !

Wouldn’t we all like to change the world! Especially the world we’re living in now full of killing, hatred, and bigotry.

I’d also like to change the opinions of some of my friends. I will often stand up and give them my point of view. But too often, I just sigh and swallow my opinion and figure that’s easier than losing a friend.

Thanks for the interesting topic!