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INSPIRATION PAGES
Prayers You May Offer on the Behalf of Your Local Funeral Directors and Embalmers
Thank you, God for Funeral Directors, Embalmers, and all those who assist them in providing appropriate respect and care for the dead and providing their service to grieving families at need. We believe their calling to this profession reflects Your heart of compassion as well as honoring the scriptural traditions of embalming and burial. We recognize that they are uniquely gifted to carry out such work, and we thank you for placing them in our communities for our times of need.
God, give them grace and strength to do their honorable work with dignity and compassion. Help them to be honest and forthright always, practicing their arts and conducting their businesses ethically and honorably. Bless them with good reputations in their communities that outweigh advertising. Lord, help them find ways to love their communities, give back, pay forward, invest, befriend, and become a part of their lives, so that when a death occurs, it seems obvious who to call.
Give them genuine empathy, sympathy, and heartfelt devotion to care for bereaving families in meaningful ways. May there always be a sacred, hallowed view of each decedent in their preparation and planning. Give them grace to be artistic and creative in the preparation rooms with great attention to every detail, regardless of the circumstances of death or the social status of the decedent, treating the rich and the pauper alike with appropriate dignity, care, and respect. Grant them faith that you will provide for them and their staff, and grant that the love of money does not rule their business.
May they be creative in finding resources to provide dignified burial and ceremonies for indigent decedents, nursing home decedents without next-of-kin, and families leaning toward direct cremation. Give them wisdom not to overburden families of limited means with extravagant funerals.
When they have many calls in the house and their preparation room tables are full, give them energy and patience, as well as wisdom to prepare financially for the days when calls are few and far between. When they have seasons without decedents, may they take time to reflect on ways to provide better care for surviving spouses and families.
When decedents are mass-endowed, give them equipment and helpers to protect their backs from injury. When decedents are infectious, protect them with equipment and strong immune systems. When decedents are decomposing or present with gruesome anomalies, grant them strong constitution, creativity, and patience in preservation and reconstruction.
Help them with planning by giving them foresight and eyes for meticulous detail. May every ceremony they plan be carried out as planned, without surprises (like a flat tire on the hearse). Help them know how to reduce expenses without compromising the quality of the goods or services they offer.
Grant them strong, compassionate, dedicated, available funeral assistants to help them move the things that must be moved and assist in conducting visitations and ceremonies. Grant them good relationships with cemetery and vault company personnel, and may they find dependable companies who will accommodate their requests for times and dates. Grant them dependable, dedicated office personnel.
Allow them a spirit of cooperation rather than competition with other local funeral directors. Through their professional organization memberships, grant them sources and resources for comradery, friendship, and personal and professional guidance and wisdom when they face difficult decisions that inevitably come.
Grant them superb writing skills, grammatical excellence, and the computer-savvy skills to create attractive print materials, social media posts, and obituaries that honor the dead appropriately. Help them to keep accurate records and satisfy all the legal requirements they must meet for continued operation, especially when they are under the scrutiny of regulatory agencies.
Finally, through your grace and mercy, grant them a special relationship with you, Lord. Bless them and keep them, always.
