Rare Faith Blog

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...

By Robyn Young

I saw a comic in the paper a few weeks ago. It showed a delinquent-looking teen standing in a school hallway, eyeing the “in case of fire” alarm next to him. In the next frame, he pull...

By Robyn Young

I had a conversation with a friend the other day that ended in hurt feelings—my hurt feelings. Sometimes you can sense tension building in a relationship before things boil over. Not t...

By Robyn Young

Perpetual Transmutation.
Let’s break it down:

Perpetual: occurring continually, continuing forever
Trans- (prefix): so or such as to change or transfer
Mutation: a significant and bas...

By Robyn Young

Years ago, I watched the movie What About Bob?, a comedy about a man named Bob (Bill Murray), a deeply paranoid New Yorker who’s afraid of just about everything. His fears are so overw...

By Robyn Young

I’m fascinated by the process of bringing a dream to life. The more I reflect on it, the more I’m reminded of my pregnancies—there are so many parallels. It’s no coincidence that this ...

By Robyn Young

Recently, I had a conversation with a friend that didn’t go the way I had hoped. I was deeply hurt and couldn’t seem to shake it. The pain settled in and soon turned into irritability—...

By Robyn Young

I had an interesting experience while listening to the radio recently. A song I’d never heard before came on—a story about a man facing his own mortality. He was asked how he reacted w...

I received an email the other day that was SO appreciated, because even though I may have "written the book" on it, I still have to learn and re-learn the principles sometimes over and over again. (Ye...

Be anxiously engaged in a good cause—but pace yourself. Because life isn’t a sprint… it’s a marathon.

Have you ever been accused of working too hard or running too fast?

Sometimes fast is good. But ...

"There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated—And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law up...

Hi! I’m Leslie Householder. My husband, Trevan, and I co-founded the School of Life Mastery, and I’d love to tell you more about our work.

Our journey didn’t start out easy—far from it. Stick around,...

I don’t know her real name. She went by “Cinnamon.”

She was a red-headed, freckle-faced camp counselor when I was twelve. Our days at camp were filled with stirring motivational talks from some of th...

In 2009, I had a powerful AHA moment—one that has impacted me nearly as much as any success principle I’ve been sharing over the past twenty years.

A good friend of mine has started over a dozen comp...

“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...

One of the most common questions I get is this: How do I achieve my goals when my partner or spouse doesn’t think the same way I do about these principles?

There are so many directions we could go wi...

A Book Worth Reading: Trust Your Heart: Transform Your ideas into income

Got an idea spinning around in your brain, but wonder if it could actually make money?

You’re not alone. Thousands of people ...