Rare Faith Blog

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

The scientific definition of vibration, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, is:

Vibration, periodic back-and-forth motion of the particles of an elastic body or medium, common...

By Elise Adams

“May the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows.”

This is one of my favorite lines from “Have It All” by Jason Mraz. It’s a happy, upbeat song full of advice and well-wish...

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 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 ...

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 Dawn Norton

Life is never static. It simply can’t be—because everything around us is always in motion, always changing. It’s either coming into form or going out of form. From the moment we arrive...

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 Elise Adams

Let’s talk about the Law of Cause and Effect. Have you ever heard of an improv comedy group called Studio C? AH! You haven’t? They are clever. Watching their sketches always gives me a...

By Elise Adams

I grew up performing. I was literally on stage by the time I was two and a half. My first solo came around age three—“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”—sung in front of an audience of 5...

"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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...