Rare Faith Blog

Meet Cosette Snarr.

It's been my pleasure to work with Cosette both on her incredible book about overcoming some of the most difficult marriage challenges I've ever heard of, as well as on her prepar...

Meet Diana Barber, Mindset Mastery Honors Graduate.

As Diana went through the course, life seemed to get harder before it got easier (as it can sometimes feel). She wasn't sure if she was the only pe...

Meet Janita Boer, Mindset Mastery Honors Graduate.

Janita joined the course and had a similar experience to Kristi during her inconsequential goal from Phase 1 of the Mindset Mastery course.

In Jani...

Meet Kristi Steidley, Mindset Mastery Honors Graduate.

Kristi discovered something interesting and profound through her struggle to select an inconsequential goal during Phase 1 of the Mindset Master...

By Jill MacDonald

Comparison blinds you. It distorts your vision and robs you of clear perspective. When you're stuck in comparison, you can’t see the full truth—you only see through a narrow, often ...

By Jill MacDonald

Ideas—I have lots of them! So many, in fact, that at times I’ve felt totally overwhelmed. I used to try and chase every single idea that popped into my head. Spoiler alert: that was...

By Jill MacDonald

The Law of Perpetual Transmutation, as described in Hidden Treasures, teaches that:

“Everything is either coming into physical form or going out of it.”

The first time I read ...

By Jill MacDonald

Many years ago, I read Leslie Householder’s book Hidden Treasures. At the time, I was in the thick of a situation that felt really bad. I couldn’t see it as anything but bad—until I...

By Jill MacDonald

Many years ago, I read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. In it, he talks about how everything contains an equal or greater benefit within it. That idea both puzzled me and fasci...

By Jill MacDonald

“Give me, give me, give me!” I hear that a lot. It feels like we live in a “give me” society, where so many people are focused on what they can get—what others owe them, what life o...

By Jill MacDonald

I’ve learned about goal setting from several different mentors I’ve worked with over the years. And while they all had their own approach, two key principles came up every single ti...

By Jill MacDonald

I look in the mirror and stare into my eyes

It’s so hard to focus, I look away in surprise

Why is it so hard to look myself in the eye?

Is it me that I deny? I really want to com...

By Heather Backman

One day, I hit a breaking point. Something had to change—or I was going to lose it. I was drowning in responsibilities: taking care of five kids, trying to keep the house clean, bu...

By Heather Backman

There’s a phrase that says, “No pain, no gain!” While it’s not my favorite saying, it points to a powerful universal law: without opposition, there can be no contrast—no depth, no ...

By Heather Backman

Connecting with another person is one of the most beautiful harmonies two souls can experience. Sometimes, it even feels like we’re remembering each other from another realm—like a...

By Heather Backman

There have been so many times in my life when I’ve gotten a spark—an exciting new idea that lit me up inside. I’d feel inspired, energized, ready to move! But then, the moment I’d ...

By Heather Backman

I didn’t realize at first that my children and I had created a vacuum—a deep, shared desire to find a way to make money that was actually fun. We let that desire work on us until o...

By Heather Backman

“To every thing there is a season!” Ecclesiastes 3:1

On a cold evening, sitting in a sacred place, my husband and I felt a strong prompting—we needed to move to Hawaii. And not ju...