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    NIKI FLORICA

    The Quiet Quill

    Books, Blessings, & Quiet Contemplations 

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    How Was Your Productive-in-Its-Own-Way Thursday?
    nikiflorica
    • Jan 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    How Was Your Productive-in-Its-Own-Way Thursday?

    Now, I typically don't write my Thankful Thursday posts at eight o'clock on Thursday night, but when life hands you lemons and a busy day, you make lemonade at your earliest convenience. So, here we are. I had a relatively unproductive 24 hours, all things considered—one of those days when every task seems to take an eternity and leaves you feeling utterly devoid of accomplishment. But in a way, I suppose that's just a matter of perspective. Our need to constantly operate at
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    Unsinkable
    nikiflorica
    • Oct 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    Unsinkable

    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 that He's the only one. I'm not a fast learner. No matter how many times I allow my trust to drop an anchor in worldly seas—in a friendship, a hobby, a passion, a person—I'm always left floundering when that anchor doesn't hold and God reminds me, once again, that He is the only one I can really, truly rely on. Maybe I don't appreciate that f
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    Time Keeps on Slippin'
    nikiflorica
    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 2 min

    Time Keeps on Slippin'

    I feel like I've spent way too much of my life watching the clock. Despite my early enthusiasm for it, I realized quickly as a six-year-old that school was not my favourite place to be, and as soon as I learned to tell time, I imagine I spent a lot of classes doing just that. Watching that minute hand tick slowly, slowly toward the next period, the next bell, the next end of the day. It's a nasty habit that's followed me through all of elementary and high school, and now with
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    Life is Joy—And What To Do About It
    nikiflorica
    • Aug 13, 2020
    • 3 min

    Life is Joy—And What To Do About It

    Earlier this week, I blogged about the inevitable reality that life is pain, and that we have only two options in that regard: to suffer, or to suffer with Christ. It's as true now as it was days ago, as it was months ago, as it was two thousand years ago . . . but that doesn't mean there aren't other facts of life that are equally true as well. Life is joy, for example. A contradiction? I think not. It's the kind of paradox that can only exist within the infinity that is God
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    Because Prayer Works
    nikiflorica
    • Jul 9, 2020
    • 2 min

    Because Prayer Works

    Prayer works. Not always in the ways we expect, not always in the cookie-cutter outcomes we may look for, but God and His Holy Spirit are co
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    For Lack of Spare Minutes
    nikiflorica
    • May 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    For Lack of Spare Minutes

    When time slows down, it gives us a breath to slow down with it and savour our circumstances. To look at the little things and see what we may otherwise have glossed over for lack of spare minutes, or for lives packed to maximum capacity. When time slows down, suddenly we have minutes in abundance. Suddenly we can spend time together doing nothing but being together; we can climb a tree or lay in the grass and stare up at the sky just thinking and praying and feeling God's Pr
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    The Worst Three Days
    nikiflorica
    • Apr 16, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Worst Three Days

    In the past, I've been pretty quick to judge the disciples for their lack of faith throughout the gospels. I mean, as Christians of today, we haven't seen Jesus in the flesh; we haven't witnessed his miracles or looked into his eyes or heard his voice speak our names, but the disciples had. Their relationship with Christ was tangible, visible, measurable. And yet, they still despaired and lost hope. Take the crucifixion for example. Jesus had warned the disciples on more than
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    Not Alone. Ever.
    nikiflorica
    • Mar 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    Not Alone. Ever.

    "The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure." (1 Cor. 10:13, NLT) I Corinthians 10:13 has often been an encouragement to me, especially the last half—the promise that we will never be tempted with more than we can resist, and that God will always see us through. In truth, I feel as if I've
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    Thankful Thursday (except, you know, on a Friday)
    nikiflorica
    • Jan 24, 2020
    • 2 min

    Thankful Thursday (except, you know, on a Friday)

    Sorry, folks, I know I haven't been overly active in the blogging/social media world this week, but exams have thrown a wrench in my Heir of Ariad plans and, well, I've been just a tad pre-occupied. Fortunately, though, having written my first exam today, I have a plethora of blessings to be thankful for! Yes, I know it's not Thursday, but perhaps you'd like to join me in counting just a few of the blessings I've found to be noteworthy this week. 1. Those who are in semestere
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    Blessed Book Signing!
    nikiflorica
    • Dec 13, 2019
    • 1 min

    Blessed Book Signing!

    This past Saturday I had the pleasure and honour of attending a book signing hosted by a wonderful family friend. It was my first signing since The Heir of Ariad launch in August (oh, the memories!) and it couldn't have been more enjoyable! Chronic introvert that I am, putting myself out there at events like this calls for a serious venture out of the ol' comfort zone. But just like in August (check out my post-launch ponderings here) God used this opportunity to show me just
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    Looking Out and Giving Thanks
    nikiflorica
    • Oct 24, 2019
    • 2 min

    Looking Out and Giving Thanks

    One temptation that seems prevalent in our luxury-cushioned first-world is the urge to dwell on ourselves. Whether it's that nagging cold, or that way-too-early morning, or that hurtful word we just can’t seem to smooth from our memories—how much time do we spend, do we waste, looking inwards, at our own troubles, instead of looking out? It’s not an easy concept—forgetting ourselves. It’s true and authentic selflessness. But when we do step out of the grey cloud of our proble
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    A Perfect Launch Party and a GREAT God
    nikiflorica
    • Aug 25, 2019
    • 2 min

    A Perfect Launch Party and a GREAT God

    No matter how many times God proves His goodness, I always seem to need reminding. After a year of this publishing adventure—of cover revisions, text revisions, baptism-by-fire marketing efforts, new blogs, publishing contracts, so on and so forth—God has proven time and time again that He is faithful, good, and in control. I have been through so much in this year and seen so many miracles; it is true when James says that the trying of our faith is God's way of building our s
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