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INSPIRATION PAGES
Funeral Directors and Embalmers Prayers
Thank you, God for calling us to be Funeral Directors or Embalmers. Thank you for all those who assist us in providing appropriate respect and care for the dead and providing service to grieving families at need. We believe our calling to this profession reflects Your heart of compassion as well as honoring the scriptural traditions of embalming and burial. We recognize that we are uniquely gifted to carry out such work, and we thank you for placing us in our communities for their times of need.
God, give us grace and strength to do our honorable work with dignity and compassion. Help us to be honest and forthright always, practicing our arts and conducting our businesses ethically and honorably. Bless us with good reputations in our communities that outweigh advertising. Lord, help us find ways to love our 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 us 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 our preparation and planning. Give us 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 us faith that you will provide for us and our staff, and grant that the love of money does not rule our business.
May we 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 us wisdom not to overburden families of limited means with extravagant funerals.
When we have many calls in the house and our preparation room tables are full, give us energy and patience, as well as wisdom to prepare financially for the days when calls are few and far between. When we have seasons without decedents, may we take time to reflect on ways to provide better care for surviving spouses and families.
When decedents are mass-endowed, give us equipment and helpers to protect our backs from injury. When decedents are infectious, protect us with equipment and strong immune systems. When decedents are decomposing or present with gruesome anomalies, grant us strong constitution, creativity, and patience in preservation and reconstruction.
Help us with planning by giving us foresight and eyes for meticulous detail. May every ceremony we plan be carried out as planned, without surprises (like a flat tire on the hearse). Help us know how to reduce expenses without compromising the quality of the goods or services we offer.
Grant us strong, compassionate, dedicated, available funeral assistants to help us move the things that must be moved and assist in conducting visitations and ceremonies. Grant us good relationships with cemetery and vault company personnel, and may we find dependable companies who will accommodate our requests for times and dates. Grant us dependable, dedicated office personnel.
Allow us a spirit of cooperation rather than competition with other local funeral directors. Through our professional organization memberships, grant us sources and resources for comradery, friendship, and personal and professional guidance and wisdom when we face difficult decisions that inevitably come.
Grant us 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 us to keep accurate records and satisfy all the legal requirements we must meet for continued operation, especially when we are under the scrutiny of regulatory agencies.
Finally, through your grace and mercy, grant us a special relationship with you, Lord. Bless us and keep us, always.
