Rare Faith Blog

Meet Elise Adams. Elise was raised as a performer. Her family began performing around the time Elise turned 2. By the time she was 9 the family was professionally performing all over the United States. Each summer from the time she was 9 – 18 years old the family traveled all across the country ...

By Elise Adams "The choice a person makes in the face of terror literally determines their future." — Leslie Householder, Mindset Mastery, p. 363 Have you ever felt truly terrified? I’m not just talking about being startled in a dark basement or waking up disoriented in an unfamiliar room. I me...

By Elise Adams I have a fruit basket that sits on my kitchen counter. Sometimes it’s filled with vibrant apples, oranges, bananas, and other colorful fruits. Over time, I’ve noticed something interesting: each piece of fruit has a window of optimal quality. Take avocados, for example. When I fi...

By Elise Adams If You Make Room, It Will Come I used to run a home business I genuinely loved—teaching private voice and guitar lessons. I was good at it, and for a long time, it felt like a dream to "go to work" just down the hall. But after nearly 20 years, something shifted. I began to dread...

By Elise Adams Is there a song that, the moment it starts playing, you can’t help but jam along? Maybe you bob your head, tap your toes, or break into a full smile. Life just feels a little bit better—even if just for those few minutes. Or maybe you’ve had this happen: you hear a song unexpecte...

By Elise Adams The Law of Polarity teaches that everything of consequence has an opposite. “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so... righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefor...

By Elise Adams “May the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows.” This is one of my favorite lines from “Have It All” by Jason Mraz. It’s a happy, upbeat song full of advice and well-wishes — a song where he’s essentially saying, I want all the good things for you. If you haven’t hea...

By Elise Adams I grew up performing. I was literally on stage by the time I was two and a half. My first solo came around age three—“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”—sung in front of an audience of 500. Attending Brigham Young University and majoring in Music Dance Theater had been a lifelong d...

By Elise Adams Sometimes I feel like a little kid desperate to know how many more days until Christmas—and exactly what’s inside each of her presents. But no one will tell me! I cry, beg, plead… yet no matter how I wrestle with the All-Knowing Being, He won’t say. I will never know. I just have ...

By Elise Adams Let’s talk about the Law of Cause and Effect. Have you ever heard of an improv comedy group called Studio C? AH! You haven’t? They are clever. Watching their sketches always gives me a good chuckle, and somehow, laughing a little always helps me feel a little better about life. (I...