Every day, I wake up around 5 a.m. to organize my blog, check my work email, and have a video conference with the president of the AI Association once a week. By 7 a.m., I drive my older kids to school and spend the hour-and-a-half round trip home listening to current affairs, politics, economics, and other channels on YouTube while catching up on news. By 9:30 a.m., I arrive home and drop my youngest off at kindergarten. My morning exercise now consists of walking to the waterfront park and listening to an audiobook, or playing 9 holes of screen golf at the apartment’s amenities, and then it’s 10:00 a.m. From 10:00 a.m. onward, I rent a Socar to travel to Seoul for client meetings, and around 6:00 p.m., I have a light dinner, pick up packages, and leave for the evening to watch the sunset. Finally, I end the day by listening to the Bible in English before going to bed.

However, I suddenly had a question, “When do I pray?” and I thought that it had been a long time since I hadn’t prayed out of habit, but when I read a blog called The disaster that fell on our church that doesn’t pray, I reflected on myself. When I went to a church that had a daily morning prayer meeting, I went out and started my day with prayer on average once or twice a week, but now there is only one morning prayer meeting a week, and there are many weeks when I can’t attend even that. It has become a habit that I wake up around 5 a.m. even without an alarm, but some days I wake up earlier and fall back asleep, or wake up a little later, and since I’m already up, I often end up watching the morning service on YouTube. I realized that while I was busy reading, exercising, and working on my company and personal business for hours a day, I was too lazy to pray. I repented when I heard that God has long since left the church where there is no prayer, and I wondered if the candlestick had been moved from me. Now, when I wake up in the morning, I start my day by building an altar of prayer, and I pray and blog right away.