NIKI FLORICA

Perspective is a gift. God knew we couldn't handle the full, grandiose scope of everything He's doing in our lives, so he gave us limited...

It's remarkably easy to give someone the impression that we care about them. We all know the proper protocol: paint our faces in the...

Since making the spontaneous decision to start a brand new project for National Novel Writing Month, I've been thinking a lot about...

It's National Novel Writing Month, and I'm a roiling blend of nerves and excitement and dreams of a finished product by the end of one...

There are some stories we fancy we know so well that we don't bother to pick up the book—and for a long time, for me, that was The...

I don't try new things often, but when I do, I blog about it.

To indulge, by definition, is to "allow oneself to enjoy the pleasure of" something. And it really can be anything. We tend to think of...

Peace comes from Christ. It's not something we can manufacture for ourselves, though we still must be proactive and cooperative with God's w

Having been moved to a home not two months ago, my Papa passed peacefully last night in the company of caring and dedicated staff, to all of

"Waiting" carries so many connotations—tension, expectation, worry, time, patience, impatience, hope, fear—but if we're being completely...

When we travel, we tend to plan. That's just good old-fashioned thinking ahead. We may not know exactly what each leg of the journey will...

It's one thing to be convicted and motivated by a devotion. It's quite another to seize that conviction and follow through when the...

Well, at 7:00pm today by my calendar, I would have been conducting a signing/reading/meet-and-greet at The Bookshelf in downtown Guelph ....

These are exceptional, surreally strange times, but maybe it takes an exceptional, surreally strange time to get our undivided attention,...

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. ~Ephesians 5:8 This verse is short but packs...

"The Lord's gotten you this far, He'll take care of you the rest of the way." These words glowed from the page of Frank Peretti's, This...

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light....

Jeremiah 28—a verbal showdown between the prophet Jeremiah and false prophet Hananiah son of Azur. I'm sure Jeremiah had constant...

Truth is such a tricky thing—at least, it has been since the world got a hold of it. Once upon a time it was really very simple. Someone...