I know how you feel about studying the bible. It's a love, but it's also a discipline, because sometimes it's not the easiest thing in the world to be consistent with. A helpful tip might be to just read one verse before going to sleep or as soon as you wake up. Then just meditate on it throughout the day. It's the tiny things we think about that add up and make up our thought-life, right? He wants all of us, all the time-not just on mission trips! : )

Here's an awesome tidbit to meditate on....

Colossians 1: 9 – 14

9 FOR THIS REASON, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.

10 And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in
every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully

12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share
in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.

13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,

14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.