Rare Faith Blog

By Heather Gibson

I felt passed over and unseen. I had been consistent and poured countless hours into my work, but I was being held to standards that put me at a major disadvantage compared to my co...

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

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...

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

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 Matthew Piling

I’m a chronic non-finisher—or maybe a recovering one. Whatever label you want to use, I’ve started plenty of projects and ventures with excitement and energy, only to let them fizzl...

By Judy Young

I’m a flight attendant with a major airline, and I’ve been with the company for over 21 years. I started back in May of 1999 as a customer service representative in Chicago. In January ...

By Beckie Dragon

My husband and I had struggled financially for many years. At the time, we were living in a small apartment and barely keeping up with all of life’s demands.

Then came a turning poi...

By Carol Colvin

You’ve spent years working hard and taking care of your family. You earn a decent living and try to be frugal—yet somehow, you’re drowning in debt and have no savings to show for all ...

By Beckie Dragon

I’ve never really trusted God’s timing.

Somewhere deep down, I believed that if I just begged hard enough, long enough, He’d eventually see things my way. I know that sounds terribl...

By Carol Colvin

The Law of Relativity teaches that nothing is inherently good or bad—until it's compared to something else. There’s no “up” without a “down,” no “tall” without “short,” no “rich” with...

By Steve Dragon

Rarely does a week go by when I don’t find myself invoking the Law of Relativity. You’ll often hear me say, “Well, THAT could have been a lot worse!” Beckie, my wife, has heard it so ...

By Shelly Webb

The Law of Relativity states: Your situation is not fundamentally good or bad until you compare it with something else.

This principle shows up in our lives all the time. I experience...

By Michelle Taylor

One day, an old man spent all his savings to buy a young and beautiful horse. But that same day, the horse jumped the fence and ran off into the hills. The neighbors came by to exp...

By Alyson Porter

The Law of Relativity states that your situation is not fundamentally good or bad until you compare it to something else.

This truth has surfaced in my life again and again—one powe...

By Kristi Steidley

When I first married my husband, I found myself saying more than once, “So, this is what marriage really feels like.”
For the first time, I knew exactly where my husband was each n...

by Ann Ferguson

When I see a rosebud, I see potential. I love the anticipation of it blooming. It hasn’t opened yet, but it’s already beautiful—and it brings me joy.

When I see a rose that has just ...

Sometimes adversity persists until you finally make peace with it. Finding a seed of equal or greater benefit it contains can help that happen. As you find the seed and nurture it, your energy shif...