Article June 20, 1988 Issue

Overcoming obstacles in a new business

Spiritual answers are what make the difference—in business as well as in other aspects of our lives.

John D. Moorhead

About three years ago I became a partner in a new business. It has grown steadily since and provides a useful service. But we have had plenty of challenges to meet in making it successful.

The study of Christian Science has been invaluable to me in addressing some of the knotty difficulties we have encountered. In praying to overcome the obstacles we've faced, I've found that relying on God's design for man and yielding to the divine will are far more powerful than any unenlightened human efforts. I've learned not to trust the push of my own will but to be willing to listen and to watch—to see God's control of events—in order to make progress. By seeking God's guidance prayerfully and then following my best understanding of what is right, I have been able to resolve problems that human will would have beat against fruitlessly.

Over and over I've seen how important it is to be obedient to what God, Truth, is directing. Writing about the healing of disease, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, says in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "Human will-power may infringe the rights of man. It produces evil continually, and is not a factor in the realism of being. Truth, and not corporeal will, is the divine power which says to disease, 'Peace, be still.'" Science and Health, p. 144.

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