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PEOPLE WANT TO DO MORE WITH THEIR LIVES. They want to experience more, give more, expand in all directions.

WHEN CHALLENGES IN LIFE SEEM OVERWHELMING, it's encouraging to know that there is a spiritual standard that provides a healing solution to any difficulty. The Scriptures promise us, "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him" ( Isa.

Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. —Matthew 14:14 COMPASSION MOVED JESUS TO PERFORM WORKS OF HEALING.

BACK IN THE EARLY '90S , some family members and I trekked north from California to Oregon. We stopped for a little rest and recreation at a coastal hotel known for its focus on books.

Barry Huff doesn't waste a minute. Flying west in the wee hours of the morning, he proves that—even at 30,000 feet—he can tie up the loose ends on his most recent Journal piece.

FROM THE BEGINNING, Tibet struck me as a place peopled by quiet dissenters. On the one hand, there are the Tibetans who silently oppose the Chinese occupation; on the other, there are those who oppose the material world altogether in search of the spiritual.

IT'S NO FUN BEING THE TARGET of mean or unfair treatment. Is there anything you can do when someone mistreats you for no apparent reason? When I met my future mother-in-law for the first time, I was caught completely off-guard by her immediate hostility and unkindness.

THIS PAST SUMMER I enrolled in an introductory photography course with a focus on infrared and high speed films. I was hesitant at first, since I'd struggled with mechanics and process during my last photo class back in my sophomore year in high school.

THROUGHOUT HIGH SCHOOL, the most dreaded days of school were the ones when I had to take tests. I'd always been good at taking them until I reached high school, when, for some unknown reason, I became stressed out before tests—gripped by the fear that I wouldn't know the answers and would fail.

Five years ago, on September 11, 2001, the United States experienced its first terrorist attacks on native soil. Since that time, countless articles, sermons, blogs, television commentaries, and newspaper accounts have tried to make sense of the attacks.