There are seasons when life worries us when it seems like we're too tired and busy

for any kind of meaningful engagement with our Bibles, such as the current situation for

Elena, who writes us today.

Hello Pastor John, I live alone, I work long weeks, I find it nearly impossible to keep

up with my Bible reading, cooking, cleaning, exercising, running errands, getting food,

shopping, on and on, and by the time I get home, I'm exhausted.

I schedule times to read my Bible to pray and to be alone with God, but I feel as if I'm

only giving God 15 minutes of my day, and I don't want that, but I have to pay the bills

to live.

I feel stuck.

When I'm reading my Bible, I'm half asleep.

The only time I get now is in the weekends, but that's not enough.

In what practical ways can I beat back the busyness of my life to ensure that I make time

for him?

I hear Elena putting her finger on three things that are frustrating her time with God in

the Word.

One is that she feels stuck.

Second, she feels exhausted, like she's could fall asleep when she's reading her Bible,

and third, she's incredibly busy with many, many pressures, pushing the Bible out to the

edge of her life.

Let me say a word about those.

Just a word about being stuck.

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