Rare Faith Blog

By Dawn Norton

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – William Shakespeare

Humans are curious, often contradictory creatures. We struggle to feel content. We fixate on our...

By Dawn Norton

The Law of Gestation might sound pretty straightforward. When most of us hear “gestation,” we immediately think of the time it takes for a fetus to develop from conception to birth—whe...

By Dawn Norton

The Law of Cause and Effect is a pretty straightforward principle. For every effect, there is a cause—and for every cause, there’s an effect. It’s obvious in everyday life. If you step...

By Elise Adams

Is there a song that, the moment it starts playing, you can’t help but jam along? Maybe you bob your head, tap your toes, or break into a full smile. Life just feels a little bit bette...

By Dawn Norton

In my article on the Law of Vibration, I talked about the back-and-forth, up-and-down motion of particles. That same idea carries into the Law of Rhythm. Rhythm is movement, fluctuati...

By Elise Adams

Sometimes I feel like a little kid desperate to know how many more days until Christmas—and exactly what’s inside each of her presents. But no one will tell me! I cry, beg, plead… yet ...

"If my heart is generally in a place of wanting to glorify God and to serve His children to the best of my ability, it seems that whatever He gives me enthusiasm about is worth exploring, and then, ag...

By Angi Bair

It’s all about the money… or is it?

There was a time when money just flowed to me. I didn’t think about it. I went to work, I got paid, and I got the things I needed and wanted. I never...

By Angi Bair

A gardener once planted a bamboo seed. He watered it...and watered it...
Three months later — nothing.
Still, he kept watering.
A year went by — still nothing.
People around him started ...

By Angi Bair

Ever feel like when one thing goes wrong, everything else starts falling apart too? It’s easy to chalk that up to bad luck, but often it’s more than just coincidence. What you’re experie...

By Angi Bair

Is it good or is it bad? Or is it good, better, or best?
The truth is—nothing is inherently good or bad. Things simply are. It’s our interpretation—our judgment—that labels an experience...

By Angi Bair

Do you ever just sit and daydream? Let your mind wander into all the things you want in life? What do you imagine when you think about the life you’d love to live? What does it look like...

By Angi Bair

We live in a world of opposites—good and bad, up and down, men and women, yin and yang, dark and light, morning and night, hot and cold… and the list goes on. Without opposites, nothing ...

By Angi Bair

What is perfect? Who decides what’s perfect? Is “good enough” perfect? Is my idea of perfect the same as yours? Is perfect something fixed and finite?

The definition of perfect is:

(no...

"Don't die with the music still in you."
This advice, attributed to the beloved author Wayne Dyer, is a powerful invitation to live fully—to rise above fear and share the unique contribution you were ...

God watches over me and you. What if we could trust that?

The following comes from a reader, Catherine Dagsland. It inspired me! With her permission I'm sharing it with you:

"I was already nervous a...

"Scripturally, we are told in so many ways that 'with God, nothing is impossible'. Yet, we continue to apply our fears and constructs of possibility/impossibility to God’s power. When we place our pet...

By Angi Bair

The Golden Rule says, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” In other words: treat people how you want to be treated. It doesn’t say, “If someone is nice to you, be nice ba...