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Child of the Dragon Prophecy, by Effie Joe Stock: Review
A future foreseen. A past forgotten. The savior child of the Dragon Prophecy is born. Find the full blurb here! Being part of the launch...
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nikiflorica
- Feb 23, 2022
- 3 min
Hard to Love, Yet Called to Love
It's easy to look at the early church and wonder what advantage they had, that loving one another seemed to come so easily. We see...
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nikiflorica
- Feb 14, 2022
- 3 min
Psst. I Have a Valentine For You.
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...
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nikiflorica
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
No. 300
300 blog posts seems like an unfathomable number. I can hardly believe I've done this 299 times —sat down at my computer with nothing but...
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nikiflorica
- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
A Favourite Wish
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...
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nikiflorica
- Jan 18, 2022
- 4 min
Just Be Myself? Yeah, Right.
The benefit of being a hard-core introvert is that, by existing within the confines of my comfort zone for most of my teenage years, I've...
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nikiflorica
- Jan 11, 2022
- 5 min
The Key to Meditating... Does Anyone Have It?
We're taught to meditate on the Word of God. Joshua 1:8 tells us to meditate therein day and night; Psalm 119:15 tells us to meditate in...
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nikiflorica
- Jan 6, 2022
- 3 min
A Message from the Stars
I kind of have a thing about the night sky. I mean, one of my latest projects is called Operation Stars, my first book cover featured not...
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nikiflorica
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
Keep Your Head Up
I think it would alarm me if I actually knew how much time I spend with my head down, watching the road ahead of me. On walks, I barely...
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nikiflorica
- Dec 21, 2021
- 3 min
Negativity Stinks... And Other Reasons to Smile This Christmas
Maybe this goes without saying, but isn't negativity the worst? I mean, you're just rolling along, enjoying God's grace and goodness, and...
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nikiflorica
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
We Are the Messengers Now
All right, y'all, who watched The Chosen Christmas Special on Sunday? If you did, please accept my fist bump through your computer...
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nikiflorica
- Dec 3, 2021
- 3 min
A Roomful of People Like That
There is always a degree of discomfort in coming up against opinions that differ from our own. It's natural—and perfectly human—to...
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nikiflorica
- Nov 25, 2021
- 3 min
And the Walls Came A-Tumbling Down
For the past few weeks, sitting down to blog has felt like staring at a solid wall and trying to see through it. And no, I'm not...
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nikiflorica
- Nov 15, 2021
- 3 min
So What's the Deal with Me?
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...
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nikiflorica
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
It's Simple. Right?
There's a quote in the film, God's Not Dead: "It's not easy, but it's simple." The "it," if I remember correctly, refers to doing the...
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nikiflorica
- Oct 25, 2021
- 3 min
"When Everything Gets Easy"
"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...
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nikiflorica
- Oct 18, 2021
- 3 min
Thankful-Coloured Glasses
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....
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nikiflorica
- Oct 12, 2021
- 2 min
To Consult My Compass
Sometimes I feel like a Lost Girl. Like I took a wrong turn at the second star on the right and ended up a thousand miles from Neverland,...
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nikiflorica
- Oct 6, 2021
- 2 min
The Mundane is the Mission: Thoughts from Telephone Book Club
Yesterday marked my first trip to campus in a few weeks, and I was reluctant to go. Having mostly online classes allows me to stay within...
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nikiflorica
- Oct 1, 2021
- 2 min
Brand of Light, by Ronie Kendig: Review
Kersei Dragoumis of the planet Drosero thought an unwanted marriage was the worst fate imaginable . . . until an inexplicable tragedy...
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