Rare Faith Blog

By Kathryn Barney

“Every ounce of energy you invest in pursuing your goals will help you grow toward God’s plan for you . . . even if you end up somewhere you hadn’t counted on.” – Chip Gaines

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By Kathryn Barney

“His goal attracts him, because he doesn’t let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal. . .He has that mysterious quality of those people to whom success comes all by it...

By Kathryn Barney

In Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life, it says, “all problems -- from a gnawing sense you could be making more to the gut-wr...

By Kathryn Barney

In The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett, young Marco suddenly finds himself in a desperate situation.

“‘What will it be best to think about first?’

This he said because on

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By Kathryn Barney

“Be aware of what season you are in and give yourself the grace to be there.” — Kristen Dalton

I’m so grateful to have learned more about the Law of Rhythm. I’d heard all my li...

By Kathryn Barney

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. . .The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the ...

By Kathryn Barney

I was fiercely committed to helping my mentally ill, rebellious son get the help he needed. In fact, I had never been so passionately dedicated to anything in my life. Like any moth...

By Steve Dragon

In the New Testament, in Mark chapter 4, the Savior shares the Parable of the Sower. He describes seeds falling in different types of soil—some on stony ground, some among thorns, and...

By Steve Dragon

For most of my working life, I lived “hand-to-mouth.” If I had money in my hand, I spent it—usually as quickly as possible—on whatever felt good or fun in the moment: food, hobbies, t...

By Steve Dragon

I recently listened to a BYU devotional talk by C. Terry Warner, a former professor of philosophy at BYU, entitled “Honest, Simple, Solid, True” (link here). In it, he shares a moment...

By Steve Dragon

Just before our youngest son was born in the summer of 1994, we felt inspired to move into Beckie’s childhood home in Farmington, Utah—the very one she had lived in her entire life. I...

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 Polarity says: everything has an opposite. Every difficult experience carries within it the potential for something equally good. When you start looking for the good, you in...

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 Shelly Webb

The Law of Rhythm states: “When you feel down, be grateful, knowing that (by law) there is an upswing coming. Plan on endless progression upward.”

My personal experience with the Law ...

By Shelly Webb

The Law of Gestation says: “Plant your own idea seeds, and then be patient. Don’t uproot your idea seeds with doubt.”

In December 2018, I wrote down a dream I’d had for a while: to ta...

By Shelly Webb

The Law of Perpetual Transmutation teaches that circumstances and things are always changing—either coming into form or dissolving—based on our thoughts. I saw this law in action when ...

By Steve Dragon

Over the year and a half leading up to October 2019, our financial situation kept getting worse. In my judgment, we hadn’t done enough to improve things on the income side, and instea...