Rare Faith Blog

After my 3 year-old daughter Bethany was discovered face down in our pool, I learned something that helped me see my failures in a wh...

If you're not as happy as you'd like to be, better opportunities or circumstances will bring you happiness, right?

Sure, maybe... but sometimes better opportunities and circumstances only come to you...

One of my readers recently asked:
"Can you have more than one goal at one time? Or is it too overwhelming for you and your mind?"

That’s a great question.

The length of my answer reminds me of somet...

My oldest was probably only four years old when he came to me beaming, proudly announcing that he had tied his shoes.

There they were—laces twisted and looped into tight little mounds, knotted over a...

A Message to My LDS Friends Who Love the Church

This week, a policy change in the Church’s handbook stated that children of same-sex couples cannot be blessed or baptized until they are 18. The annou...

Success principles activate a power that allows us to co-create with God.

Co-creation—the power to cause things to happen through faith—is a lot like pro-creation—the power to create a child. Both ar...

The following clip metaphorically captures the experience of breaking through a terror barrier (kind of like before and after deciding to home school when my kids were little).

Maybe this video descr...

By Cristie Gardner

For years, I have written my goals down: the characteristics I wanted to develop, the possessions I wanted to acquire, the projects and adventures I wanted to accomplish. But at ti...

Nicholeen Peck once told me there's a honeymoon stage when you're teaching your children (and yourself) self-government. Looking back, all of my previous posts about my Parenting Transformation Journe...

My Parenting Transformation Journey – Page 19
(Originally posted August 13, 2017)

I’ve been so impressed with the parenting success principles I’ve been learning from Nicholeen Peck, I felt compelled ...