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I WAS STUCK. I had recently left a full-time college teaching position, in part so I could engage more actively in conflict resolution with a religious dimension, my area of expertise.

I was 12 years old. I remember walking with my father, holding his hand, through the Mexican marketplace where silver and different types of jewelry were being sold.

OFTEN WE SEEM TO LIVE in a disturbed, troubled world—with troubled governments, wars, shaky economies, natural disasters. The list goes on.

A LITTLE FIVE-YEAR-OLD friend told me how he had helped the kids on the playground stop fighting. I told him he was being a peacemaker and that Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God" ( Matt.

AN EPILEPTIC CHILD HEALED. A woman restored to health after 12 years of hemorrhaging.

SOME TIME AGO my husband and I saw a television drama based on a true story of a man unjustly accused of murder and sentenced to death. While testifying on the stand, the real guilty party lied so convincingly that the jury believed him.

How aware are you of your unlimited God-given abilities—your God-given dominion? Become more aware, and you will see limits of every kind give way to freedom. IN TODAY'S WORLD, even with all of its remarkable equipment and technological advances, we still find many forms of limitation besetting and restricting humankind.

When Mark Swinney saw how frequently physicists now question the long-accepted concept that creation started with the atom, he had questions of his own. Something else causes us to exist, he reasoned.

IT HAD BEEN A LONG DAY. Not a bad one, but certainly a long one.

READERS of the September 10, 2006, Bible Lesson, "Substance," and the September 24, 2006, Bible Lesson, "Reality," will find these Lessons each contain five sections instead of six. This flexibility regarding the number of sections is intentional.