Accessing Our Inner Light In Times of Darkness

"Accessing Our Inner Light In Times of Darkness"

Sermon by The Rev. Ed Bacon

Dec. 7, 2025


Advent invites us to be honest about the darkness in our world and in our own lives, and to ask whether the dark can ever really overcome the light. This sermon talks about three advents: the birth of Jesus long ago, Christ’s coming at the end of time, and the “interior advent” where God’s light is born in us right now. He shares the story of a mother from Newtown who, in her grief, clings to the truth that there is within her an “invincible summer,” a divine light that cannot be put out. That same light lives in each of us, he says, and we learn to trust it through stillness, love, and daily choices to let our light shine in a hurting world.


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