Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Your circumstances and people around you may seem to be unravelling. Finances may seem to be dwindling and opportunities aren’t coming. It’s like playing chicken. You know in your heart of hearts, but your circumstances are staunchly telling you “otherwise.” Who or what do you believe in, when the end of the road seems to have appeared on the horizon?
Do you give up? Do you call it a day? Do you give in to those persistent and chronic problems that seem to be pushing you around, dictating how you are to proceed? Do you acquiesce and declare failure, become a nobody, and a person who follows the dictates of “realistic thinking?” Or do you become a person who follows deep desire and conviction, and gird up your endurance to see it manifest as you desire?
This is the crossroads of forbearance which means patience, self-control; restraint and tolerance. It’s refraining from enforcement. It’s refraining from retreat. It’s refraining from backing down. It’s refraining from desperate action or doing something to betray the part of you that knows better. It seems like a test! The circumstances may seem to be dictating your choice – they seem to say “otherwise.”
But what’s wise, not otherwise, is key to passing a test which has no barrier.
What’s wise is to know better. To know the circumstances do not push you around, nor do you enforce anything. Even though the circumstances seem to say otherwise or doomsday ahead, the wise stay steadfast in their forbearance – patient, self-controlled, and tolerant.
Even though the circumstances seem to say otherwise, here is the key: That part of you that knows better is wise beyond doubt – it secretly knows “otherwise.”
Even though what’s around you says otherwise, you trust The Wise.
Not otherwise.
Always know better: forbearance* is key.
*Patient self-control, restraint, or a temporary delay in [enforcing].