Keep Going With Nika Maples

In this episode, I read an excerpt from Hunting Hope: “The speed of my answer surprised me when someone recently asked, “What’s next for you?” “Obedience,” I answered. “That’s always what’s next for me.” Maybe I have finally learned that any other plan won’t work. Obedience is my plan. Obedience was the plan for most of the tide-changers in the Bible. This year I made a little project of marking certain themes in the Bible with certain colors. I am a sucker for school supplies, especially supplies in coordinatedcolors. It has crossed my mind that one reason I became apublic school English teacher was to have a valid excuse to buy new school supplies every fall. Newly armed with a set of highlighters in eight colors and a set of matching page tabs, I set out to annotate what I read in the Bible each morning. I marked passages that related to teaching. I marked passages that related to speaking and writing. I marked passages that related to handling adversity. And I marked