Rare Faith Blog

My mother attended a church service recently where the speaker talked about overcoming adversity. She was impressed enough by the message that she asked for a copy and shared it with me. I felt like i...

Here's a book that effectively teaches empowerment to youth. Youth today often struggle with low self-esteem, bullies, or just living up to their potential in schoolwork, athletics, or music. You know...

This is a follow-up to a previous post on why I home school.

When my sixth child, Bethany, turned five, she really wanted to try Kindergarten like her friends—even though we were already well into ou...

Here’s another throwback to when we were grappling with the effects of the Great Recession:

This is the third installment of my personal exposé, which began with "Getting Personal Here" and continued...

Feb 4, 2012

What began as a repository of thinking tips, this blog of mine is now becoming a catch-all for many more thoughts and ideas that I personally want to capture.

So today, I'm doing some sp...

Here’s a throwback to 2012:

I’m sitting in a swirl of mixed emotions today, so I’m writing to sort through the fog.

I’m about to begin working with a new client in my Profitable Author Coaching prog...

By Mark Andrew Beach

Many success gurus talk about goal setting. In fact, it’s such a foundational part of the laws of success that if someone claims to be a success expert but downplays goal setting...

Throwback to my Great Recession experience:

I didn’t think it would take me this long to share the story of why I dropped off the map in May 2011, but it’s been on my mind daily—especially after the ...

(This was given to me by a good friend, Renae Pelo, the year before I took the "plunge" into homeschooling - it was instrumental in helping me have the courage to begin my own homeschooling experiment...

By Mark Andrew Beach

In our pursuit of wealth, prosperity, abundance, and riches, we must never forget that some things in life matter even more than money.

A former teacher of mine once said,

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 By Mark Andrew Beach

Albert Einstein first developed the theory of relativity between 1907 and 1915. Fortunately, we don’t need to understand it on Einstein’s level to grasp the practical power of t...

By Robyn Young

"One of the greatest skills we can learn in life is how to deal effectively with disappointments, because after all, life is full of them. Learning the skill not only helps us turn thi...

By Robyn Young

"Musick has Charms to soothe a savage Breast, to soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak."
~ William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

Music moves.
It lilts, flows, rises in crescendo, then fa...

“Children are an heritage of the Lord… Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.” — Psalms 127:3–5

As the youngest of four, I never had a baby sibling to care for. During a few years my fam...

Even a laundry room catastrophe can teach a valuable life lesson.

When my oldest son was seventeen, he was assigned to handle the family laundry for an entire week.

Now, with nine people in the hous...

Clear the Clutter to Catch the Clues That Lead You to Success

A few years ago, my husband and I took our seven children to a neighboring state for a read-a-thon. On the way home, we stopped to stay o...

One morning, my husband and I slept in a little longer than usual—understandable after the long, jam-packed day we'd had preparing for an event we were about to lead.

Still tired but knowing we had m...