Rare Faith Blog

This is one of my brain dumps. It’s not organized with literary brilliance—it’s just a brain dump. But it’s important, and I think it needs to be shared now. I’ll clean it up later. Maybe.

Here we go...

As you learn more about this "Rare Faith" I often talk about, you might be wondering: is it grounded in science or theology? Honestly, I believe it’s built on a solid foundation of both. Let me show y...

Back when all my kids still lived at home:
Journal Entry, 2008

Tonight was our weekly family night—an evening dedicated to spending intentional time together, building relationships through shared ac...

"I'll believe it when I see it."

Have you ever heard this expression before? Or maybe, "Seeing is believing"? Our eyes are extremely useful tools for helping us to gather information, but there are p...

Depression had gripped me throughout my second pregnancy. I was thrilled to be expecting another baby, but the hormones made it difficult for me to feel the happiness.

When the time came, labor was l...

Here's a conversation I had with one of my Mindset Mastery students that you might find interesting. She writes...

Dear Leslie, I am taking your Mindset Mastery Online Course, and I love it! I find I...

"Leaning into" your problem is less painful than pretending it doesn't exist.

One afternoon, as I was playing with my kids, my sweet little two-year-old stepped on my hair.

The moment I felt the pai...

I had my own faith crisis a few years ago.

When I found myself with more questions than I had answers, I felt like the earth had fallen out from beneath my feet for a time. But then ultimately I deci...

Here’s a tough question—one that’s easy to answer when life is going well, but much harder in the thick of adversity:
When the challenges feel heavier than you can bear, and the odds seem impossibly s...

As discussed in Hidden Treasures, the seventh law is the Law of Gestation. Simply put, it says that every seed in nature has a specific and finite gestation period before it reaches maturity.

Our dre...