It was my great privilege and honor to give the Burial Homily for Alex Robertson, son of my good friends Randy and Pat Robertson, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Winter Park, FL. It was there, when I served as Rector, that our paths crossed on the Journey and the Way.
I share these words from the heart with you that you might have a glimpse of the immeasurable gift of Alex’s life. All of us share the same human and existential reality of the challenges of life.
On our earthly Pilgrimage, no life is without pain, suffering, challenging or difficult circumstances. We live in a context that is characterized by heartbreak and heartache. Every one of us sits next to our own pool of tears, the storyline of our suffering in this world. Life is difficult. Life is hard. It evokes deep desires and longings within us.
Regardless of how we describe it, the fundamental longing of our soul is a longing for love. It is a hunger to love, to be loved, and to move closer to the Source of love. This yearning is the essence of the human spirit; it is the origin of our highest hopes and most noble dreams.
Into our existential reality, has come Jesus, the way, the truth, and the life. Out of God’s infinite love, God made us for God’s Self, and sent his beloved son to share our human nature, to live and die as one of us, to reconcile us to the God and loving father of us all.
That is why we can have stable confidence and assurance that another kind of life can truly be ours:
“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8: 37-39
Resurrection Love and Joy runs through it all. Nothing can separate us from the love of God, from the friendship of God, from the life of God in Christ Jesus.
May Alex rest in peace and rise in glory.
With you on the Journey and The Way,
Rob+
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