Rare Faith Blog

By Laura Curtis

While taking the Mindset Mastery Course and learning about inconsequential goals, I realized I wasn’t asking for things in my life as often as I could. One day, as I prepared to facil...

Tamara Shimmin

How do you write about the Law of Polarity without sounding like a string of clichés?

“Break in the clouds.”

“Look for the silver lining.”

“Count your blessings.”

“The glass is hal...

By Roseanne Dawes

Moving to the city after a lifetime in the country has actually been a pretty smooth transition… except for the traffic. While I was raising my four children, anytime we made a trip...

By Helen Huntsman

My husband’s voice called from the kitchen: “Have you seen my car keys?”

I was upstairs folding laundry and honestly, I was confused. I responded, “Pardon?”

You have to understand...

By Lena Mattice

Throughout my life, I’ve heard so many people say things like:

• Why does it seem like some people have it easy?

• Why is life so hard for me and not for others?

• Why does i

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By Roseanne Dawes

I taught elementary school for eight years before I finally felt the nudge to resign and become an entrepreneur. Actually, those promptings started a full year earlier, encouraging ...

By Roseanne Dawes

As I sat quietly on the couch in my living room, I suddenly heard a distinct voice in my head say, “This is not your house.” It startled me. I had never thought that before. We’d li...

By Helen Huntsman

You know that saying, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead”?

I’ve decided that people who say that have never actually been tired.

Today I want to share a little about my experience with ch...

By Heidi Dahlke

In my college English class, I had a professor who encouraged us to write by focusing on a moment—a snapshot of our lives—and to describe it using all five senses. Years later, while ...

By Laura Curtis

When I was a teenager, my family had horses. I hadn’t grown up riding them since they were boarded away from our home. My brothers spent a lot of time learning and riding with my dad,...

By Rochelle Lloyd

Vulnerability—the ability to be vulnerable.
It shows up in many forms, and most of us have to reckon with it at some point. For some, it's a minor inconvenience that appears in spec...

By Helen Huntsman

Okay, so apparently “despaired” isn’t technically a word—but we’re going to pretend it is, because it just fits.

About a month and a half ago, I found myself scribbling in my jour...

By Lena Mattice

Life often feels like a mix of good days and bad days. But as Lehi says in the Book of Mormon:

“For it must needs be that there is an opposition in all things. If not so... righteo

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By Heidi Dahlke

From the moment I got married, I found myself exposed to a steady stream of multi-level marketing programs. I joined several of them, always hoping this one would be the key—the one t...

By Helen Huntsman

"Should we call this ‘crashing’ or ‘rest’?"

While brainstorming story ideas with my daughter to illustrate the Law of Rhythm, we flipped through Hidden Treasures by Leslie Househo...

By Heidi Dahlke

My struggles with weight began early in my marriage. My husband was hardly ever home—he was a teacher and coached three different sports—so I spent a lot of time alone. That was the f...

Tamara Shimmin

We were living the dream—only, the dream wasn’t quite what we had imagined.

My husband and I had bought an RV with visions of roaming the country, exploring state and national parks, ...

By Lena Mattice

A few years ago, I set a goal to do a side plank on the beaches of Hawaii once I reached my goal weight of 140 pounds. I was so excited about that goal, and I was even more excited ab...