content?

i'm not content with a lot of things. i feel like school is never-ending, as soon as one thing is done, the next thing is due. at least that's how saturday to tuesday feel. and then wednesday night i go to the hospital to research who my next patients will be on thursday and friday and then i'm so submersed in clinical, that's all that matters. then clinical is over, like tonight, and then i'm already thinking about the case study/paper that's due on monday that i haven't even chosen which scenario i'm doing from the 4 choices (but that can wait. it's friday night, i'm tired and i'm staying home and relaxing. actually, i think after this i'm going to go make myself a new necklace).

but i'm not content with other things. a few things have made me realize this lately, that i don't like where my relationship with God is at. or maybe the problem is that i AM content with where it's at. janelle's blog the other day has been making me think. i don't really like doing devotions. i mean, its not something i really look forward to. first of all, i can't find a great time of day to set aside to spend time with God. getting up earlier doesn't work, i've tried it, but i really don't think very well at all in the morning (that's why i like the walk to school- it wakes me up). and after school my brain is full of learning stuff and the last thing i want to do is read anything. and before going to bed doesn't really work, b/c every night is different and either i've been working on homework all evening and it's late and i'm crashing into bed, or else i'm chilling out with my husband and it's our one time of the day we spend together...
i do read my Bible almost everyday at breakfast and that's actually working out okay. i'm reading passages from a 365 day schedule, and they're short enough to keep my attention. but i don't know if its really what i need. i don't know what i need.
i had a really good talk on the phone tonight with a good friend, and it really made me think about what's important. i believe that believing in God isn't enough, he really wants us to experience him and his power in our lives, that there's more to life than what we've known in our childhood sunday school classroom, even more than what we knew in our Bible school classroom. he is way, the truth, and the LIFE. he is life. there is more to life...


i'm in need of advice, especially from my married friends, and those who are students. how do you do it? when do you spend time with God? any advice? i read so much in school, and write and think so much, that it makes it difficult to do any extra-curricular reading. and when do you spend time with God, with your spouse?
(and for those of you that have kids: i haven't got a clue how you do it... you're amazing)