At one point in my career, I was part of a development team assigned to plan a major business conference for both international and US delegates. Since my group was also responsible for developing much of the content for the two-day meeting, we all needed to maintain great flexibility and creativity, as well as unity and teamwork.
As the conference neared, we worked long hours reviewing and, at times, scrapping entire agendas that had been completed the previous evening. Although we generally agreed on the broad objectives for the event, individual opinions as to how we were going to achieve those objectives began to intensify, and then polarize. The looming deadline put strong pressures on all of us. Frustration grew and tempers rose. I began to take things very personally and felt that the camaraderie and unity evident just a few weeks earlier were unraveling.
Though I'd been searching for spiritual solutions from the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, I found myself trying too often to sift human opinions and to reach human conclusions. Although my years of business experience had shown me the value of daily reliance on God, I ultimately began to question my effectiveness and value to the project.
