Alabaster Moments: Walking with God in the Everyday

Readings 09/18/25 

In my secular job, I’ve been asked to pray with many people. Co-workers in crisis, searching for answers. Business owners seeking prayer for their companies, their employees, their futures. One even asked me to bless their manufacturing plant.

(I’m not sure what the executives in my very progressive company would think about that last one.)

That's OK, not everyone prays the same way.
Not everyone walks with God in the same rhythm.
And that’s not a flaw—it’s a mystery.

Prayer isn’t always quiet or formal.
Sometimes it’s a sigh in traffic.
Sometimes it’s a tear in the laundry room.
Sometimes it’s forgotten altogether…
And still, God speaks.

He speaks in the events of our lives—
in the interruptions,
in the celebrations,
in the griefs we didn’t expect.
Not just in church,
not just in silence,
but in the mess and movement of our days.

I’ve seen it firsthand.
In sterile boardrooms and cluttered breakrooms,
in whispered phone calls and awkward hallway moments—
God shows up.
Not always with answers,
but always with presence.

Some say, “My work is my prayer.”
That’s a tricky phrase.
But it holds a seed of truth.
Because everything we do—
every act of love,
every struggle,
every breath—
can be a revelation of God.
But not every revelation becomes an encounter.
That part… depends on us.

There was a woman—
a sinner, they said—
who came to Jesus with an alabaster jar.
She didn’t wait for permission.
She didn’t wait to be worthy.
She wept.
She poured.
She loved.
And Jesus saw her.
Not just her sin,
but her surrender.

Her faith saved her.
Her love revealed the depth of her forgiveness.

So we’re invited—
you and I—
to walk this journey with open eyes and open hearts.
To set an example in speech,
in conduct,
in love,
in faith,
in purity.

To be diligent.
Absorbed.
Attentive.
Not perfect—
but present.

Because when we persevere in both our teaching and our living,
we don’t just grow—
we help others grow too.

God is speaking.
In the ordinary.
In the overlooked.
In the alabaster moments of our lives—
even in the strange request to bless a factory floor.

May we have the courage to listen…
and the grace to respond.

Prayer: Alabaster Grace

Lord Jesus,
You meet us in the quiet and the chaos.
In our work, our tears, our love—You are there.
Teach us to see You in the ordinary,
to respond with faith,
and to walk with You in peace.

Amen.