If your mind feels fuzzy, and your soul numb, you’re not crazy. You’re just living in a year that is.

In a new article at TGC, Megan Hill asks the question many of us are feeling: “Why Is It So Hard to Read My Bible These Days?” We know Scripture is spiritual food and that without it we’ll wither. The problem isn’t whether we affirm the Bible’s importance; the problem is that whenever we open God’s Word, we’re struggling—more than ever before, it feels—to concentrate and grow.

A recent study confirmed that daily Bible reading among Americans has dropped this year. Yet this shouldn’t surprise us, Hill suggests, given how disconnected many of us have become from church. It’s not complicated: “When people engage less with the local church, they engage less with their Bibles.”

If you’re able, then, return to church—if for no other reason than to get some (forced) sustained exposure to God’s Word. After all, your private Bible reading “depends on other people more than you may think.”