Why do we always seem to skip over our time with God?

I find it amazing how, when we look at our schedules and we find it busy, or we find that we have an appointment early in the morning, or when get to bed late and just want to sleep in, the first thing we take off our list is usually our devotion time (maybe you don't have to have a list that says "devo's" on it but you just skip them anyways). I fall into this pit so many times w/out even realizing I'm there. It's like mom tells me, "You have a dentist appointment at 8:30 tomorrow morning," and I think, "Well, I'll have to get dressed, make my bed, take out the trash, eat breakfast... looks like I aint havin devotions tommorrow," or, like a lot of times, it happens this way, "O man, it's late already tonight, I'm tired, and I just wanna sleep in. I guess I'll just sleep through my normal devotion time," and I'm ok with that. I don't even think of it as being sin. One thing that I could also go awhile about on this post about is that this sin of course could also be categorized with the whole "setting your priorities straight," but thats a whole nother sermon. So just pray for me that I'll stop skipping over my devotions all the time, and since I know that it's a big trap for all of us in the youth group, just pray that all of us would find the time to be with our Best Friend (kind of ironic + sad that we don't want to spend time with our self-proclaimed "best friend"), and that we would not skip the awesome profitable time that we need to spend with Him every day.

Research paper done

I finally finished my research paper! Yay! It was 7 and 1/2 pages long until mom graded it. Then it went down to 5 and 1/2 pages. But it only had to be 5 so, it's still good. My online teacher gave me a 112/120 on it. One of the reasons i didn't get 120/120 is because I numbered my bibliography sources and I guess I wasn't supposed to do that. Keep praying for me though to finish school well because I have a lot of Lit to do now.

God's Grace is Sufficient

I was really having a rough time with my research paper recently, and it was really boring, and I really despised sitting down and getting information, and not really anything was going right - and it was getting really frustrating. But God laid it on my heart today that maybe it was because I was slacking in my devotions. And to be completely honest, I can't remember the last time I had my devotions. Maybe it was a week ago. Maybe two weeks. And I tell you what, being away from God for that long is frustrating, and it's depressing, and it's rough. So I asked God to forgive me and I asked Him to help me get back on track and to help me in my research paper, and it was really cool because things are fitting into place now and I've been hitting some valuable information for my paper and it's actually been exiting (and for socialism and capitalism and economics, that's pretty cool) to be finding the information. Anyways, it was a miracle that I was having fun putting that stuff together and making progress and filling out note cards for it, so just keep praying that I will be in God's word every day and that I will be able to get 5 pages worth for my paper and that I will get a good grade on it, and that I will feel worthy of the good grade, and that I will keep relying on God to help me along. Thanks guys, it's great to know that people are praying for you. Mark D.