Your Light is What Makes You Come Alive

Sermon by The Rev. Ed Bacon

February 8, 2026

This sermon weaves together a simple but powerful truth: every person carries a golden thread of divine light within them. Through stories of a wise friend’s memoir, along with voices like Thomas Merton and Howard Thurman, we are reminded that this light is our true self, the sound of the genuine, the mind of Christ alive in us. Instead of defining ourselves by sin or fear, we are invited to see creativity, wisdom, and sacred worth in ourselves and in everyone we meet. When we live from that place, our light breaks forth like the dawn, and we become healers in a divided world.