How do you find time for spiritual growth and prayer when you don't even have time to eat? In high school and college, you're lucky if you get enough sleep.
If your family has never made spiritual study a priority, it might seem like an unnecessary annoyance. But, as I've found in my life, spiritual study and communion with God can relieve the stresses of daily schedules rather than add to them.
I grew up in a Bible-studying, put-God-first kind of family. Both of my parents regularly read the weekly Bible Lesson provided in the Christian Science Quarterly. They taught me to do the same. Church attendance on Sundays and Wednesday nights was as certain as school on Monday mornings.
