Pastor David Grobler speaks at the funeral of three young people who died in a head-on crash on the Free State N3 two days after Christmas. Three coffins, each covered with a bunch of flowers, stood in front of a jam-packed Pretoria church on Wednesday. Inside lay three young people who lost their lives in a car crash on the Free State’s N3, just two days after Christmas.
Zane Hiltonlay on the left, his wife Claryke, whom he had married only four months ago, in the middle, and her cousin Ethan Lourens on the right. Hundreds of family members, friends, colleagues and others deeply moved by the tragedy wept bitterly as they looked at the wooden coffins, knowing full well they would never see their loved ones again. At the service held at Unite180, Pastor David Grobler told family and friends to find comfort in God during this difficult time.
With tears welling in his eyes, Grobler, a close friend of the Hiltons and Ethan, quoted the Bible, saying it was destined for mankind to die. He said every single person in the room carried that certainty in their future. “Grief cannot be written out of your life,” he said, adding that the trio was part of the church.
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“Because for it to be written out of your life, you would have to shut down your emotions and feelings,” he said. “You would have to go through life like a robot or a computer. “If love is real and true, then grief will be true as well.”
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