Rare Faith Blog

By Robyn Young

"Musick has Charms to soothe a savage Breast, to soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak."
~ William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

Music moves.
It lilts, flows, rises in crescendo, then fa...

“Children are an heritage of the Lord… Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.” — Psalms 127:3–5

As the youngest of four, I never had a baby sibling to care for. During a few years my fam...

Even a laundry room catastrophe can teach a valuable life lesson.

When my oldest son was seventeen, he was assigned to handle the family laundry for an entire week.

Now, with nine people in the hous...

Clear the Clutter to Catch the Clues That Lead You to Success

A few years ago, my husband and I took our seven children to a neighboring state for a read-a-thon. On the way home, we stopped to stay o...

One morning, my husband and I slept in a little longer than usual—understandable after the long, jam-packed day we'd had preparing for an event we were about to lead.

Still tired but knowing we had m...

A Throwback Journal Entry from 2010

Around 9 pm, there was a knock at the door.

My dog immediately launched into his deep, threatening “woof,” so I opened it to see who would drop by so late, unanno...

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put i...

By James Chase

When I write the story of my life, I’d like to call it The Parable of the 2 x 4. To explain why, let me share a story about a farmer and his mule. I’m not sure who originally told it, ...

By Angie Kleven

In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, there’s a passage that quite literally changed the way I think. It reads:

"The psychologist tell us of a state, in which the affectio...