NIKI FLORICA

"To every thing there is a season" (Ecc. 3:1). Life is made up of seasons. Seasons of abundance and seasons of want, seasons of...

At a recent church event, I was praying for a friend with a few others when the focus shifted suddenly to me and my struggles. What...

My puppy, Reggie, is afraid of the garage. She loves going outside, bounds down the stairs no problem, trots out the garage door like the...

Excluding the candy swaps in fifth grade, February 14 has never really been on my radar, but the older I get the more my heart goes out...

I've been grappling lately with what C.S. Lewis calls "favourite wishes"—dreams or desires that are close to our hearts but must be...

I don't normally let more than a week slide by between posts, but I don't normally let myself off the hook in general, so this could be a...

"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...

Christianity asks us to do a really hard thing when it comes to how we feel about ourselves. On one hand, we need to be brutally honest....

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....

Surprise—I'm still here! Although normally I try to post blogs even while I'm on vacation, this year, I decided to give myself a break...

I'm a passionate person. When I love something, I want other people to love it, too. And when that thing happens to be edifying,...

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...

The title says it all. After a little hiatus to get myself organized and listen for God's guiding voice, I'm resurrecting the ol'...

I had a rough day last week. A Thursday, but if we're being honest, I wasn't feeling very Thankful. Some new-ish responsibilities at work...

May 6th was the National Day of Prayer and Day of Reason—a thought-provoking combination. Benjamin Franklin once said, "The way to see by...

I recently saw a post that said something along the lines of, "Be the best at whatever you do," and it struck me as slightly far-fetched....

Lost, chained, a fool, or at wit's end. Which one are you? Try finding yourself in the spectrum of Psalm 107's desperate people. Are you...

I shy away from blogging on Easter weekends—probably because the greatest point in history needs no commentary from a first-year geek at...

Ladies, you know what I'm talking about. Those days when the world drizzles in shades of grey, everything is sob-worthy, and the future...

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary ... It...