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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.

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.