A Fitting Tribute: Personalized Eulogies






Everyone deserves applause for something in life.


It is my conviction that every life is worthy of celebrating. It is so because that person’s life was meaningful and purpose-filled.
As Psalm 139: 16b “all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” 
   I think it faithful to the Scripture to assert that God has ordered our days such that the purpose for which God has made us shall be accomplished.
As a eulogist, it is my calling to seek to discover that purpose and to speak it it such that it brings praise, not only to the person but also to God who made that person in His image.
   I discover these purposes by interviewing family and friends. I gather and sequence their memories and stories as they reveal some tendency, attribute, purpose which seems consistent in that person’s life.
    I have found that such interviews also serve as a means of compassion to help family and friends grieve.

   I seek out the adventures this person has experienced.
   I discover achievements acquired.
   I report accolades offered in respect of the person.
   My eulogies and tributes are personalized and relevant.
   I do not deliver impersonal, cookie-cutter eulogies that are a mere reading of the published obituary. 
   I mean to celebrate that person’s life such that loved ones will feel a sense of peace and confirmation of love.
   Everyone deserves applause for something in life. I seek to find that something and give it words of which it is worthy.
I offer tributes in the Indiana Counties of Elkhart, Kosciusko, and St. Joseph
       If you would like a personalized tribute for your loved one contact me at: mikesettles@alumni.iu.edu
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