NIKI FLORICA

"I pull you close to me when this life cuts deep But when everything gets easy it's easy not to keep you first." (Riley Clemmons, "When...

Crazy week, folks. Craaaazy week. Second-year has just begun and already there just aren't enough hours in the day; writing and...

The moment I saw this Hebrew phrase on the page of Mark 7, I knew I had to blog about it. I knew because I felt called out by it....

Want to hear a secret? Just kidding—it's not really a secret. I'm a smidge of a pessimist. Just kidding—it's more than a smidge. I think...

I talked last week about the human will. Well, I'm still talking about it. In Luke 18, Jesus arrived in Jerusalem. It was near the end of...

I don't abide by everything in my psychology course, but here's a fun fact (at least as I understand it): between ages 15 and 25, the...

So, I could write an entire post on the ups and downs of 2020 and its multiple dimensions of weird/difficult/sobering/painful/illuminatin...

I think it's fairly safe to say that we've all had expectations drenched in a cold wave of reality. Human beings are creative. We're...

Jeremiah—what a book. I mean, really, what a story. Like so many of God's prophets, he was thrown into a role he felt ill-equipped for,...

God's was the first voice I heard when I woke up this morning. He didn't speak through words, but He was among the first thoughts in my...

I had a beautiful weekend. My brother gave his life to Christ, my other brother from a couple of provinces away was here to witness it,...

We think of progress as something linear—an arrow from present to future, improving all the time, always a step ahead of where we were...

I do not have a spontaneous bone in my body. I mean that in the most literal sense. I am not impulsive. I hate making decisions and...

In our effort to have a relationship with God, to know Him and His Son on an intimate, personal level, I think there is a pitfall we...

I used to be a social butterfly. I know—GASP. There was a time when I would get together with friends at least once a week, back when we...

It's interesting how we can petition the Lord for help with something, and then when He gives us the boost we need, we assume we can handle

I've always known what it's like to have Someone in my life who would never let me down. You'd think after all this time I'd figure out...

I'm sitting on the wooden swing in my backyard, under an aquamarine sky, the wooden slats warm and familiar against my back. Everywhere I...

While sifting through blog ideas this morning, I came across one line in my daily devotion and knew I had found my Monday Musing....

Passion is a difficult one. I understand the struggle, and I'm by no means past it. But if your passion is in the puppy years, like mine,