09/07/2026
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Today we honor the people who keep this city running, and there are more of them than we usually stop to count. The nurses and the line workers, the teachers and the truck drivers, the farmers who make this part of Alabama what it is, the people behind the counter at six in the morning and the ones closing up long after the rest of us are home. Dothan works. Today we say thank you.
Scripture takes ordinary work more seriously than most of us do. Paul wrote to a group of first-century laborers, many of them slaves doing work nobody envied: โWhatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.โ He did not tell them to endure their jobs until something more spiritual came along. He told them their labor was already being offered to God.
Notice who Paul says you are actually working for. Not for human masters โ not for the supervisor, the shift schedule, the performance review, or the paycheck, real as all of those are. The audience for your work is the Lord himself, and that changes what a Monday means.
It reframes almost everything. The shift you work is not a break from your calling; it may be the largest part of it. The care you take with a task nobody is watching, the honesty you keep when cutting a corner would be easier, the patience you extend to a difficult customer โ these are not lesser things. They are how faithfulness usually looks in real life.
So rest today if you can. Enjoy your people, eat something good, take the day. And tomorrow, when the alarm goes off and the ordinary week begins again, remember whose work it really is.
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