Rare Faith Blog

Every day it seems like someone is posting in local social media groups about their financial struggles—asking how anyone is managing to stay afloat in this economy. They talk about how no one’s hirin...

My battle with Perfectionism / Am I Forgiven?

As a child who had only been on this planet for a little more than a decade, I came across a passage from President Spencer W. Kimball. Something he said...

Bracing for impact?

Wondering when the other shoe is going to drop?

One of our ATI (Achieving the Impossible) students had a question, to which I know many can relate:

Leslie, I am struggling wi...

I'm celebrating the 1-year anniversary of the cancer diagnosis and softball-sized tumor removal, so I thought it would be a good time for an update. Picture is from my soon-to-be son-in-law's marathon...

Christ lives.

That's the message of the Gospel: that He was born to save us from sin and that we can rely on His merits to help us return to the Father. We strive to comprehend this gift and power i...

It was time for Jodie to carry out her Phase 1 experiment in the Mindset Mastery course, but she had some questions about the "inconsequential" goal. First of all...

What is an Inconsequential Goal?

When it's time for a chick to hatch, the difficulty of breaking out of its shell is how it develops the strength needed to survive. Eliminate the struggle, and it will likely die.

In the pursuit of h...

Unexpected surprise… first of all the surgeon wasn’t really planning to cut the node out, let alone 3 (I thought she said 2 yesterday but I guess I heard wrong) …because it was sitting right on a main...

No real inspiring lessons here... just a really long (but eventful) update.

TLDR: Click to skip to the bottom if you don't want all the deets.

In August, my oncologist scheduled me for two more roun...

If you've experienced Genius Bootcamp, then you know what it means to be stuck in a story. You also know what happens when you let your mind spin. And you discover that what you really want, can be cr...