Jake and Bob continue their conversation from the last episode with Christopher West. If you haven’t heard part one, click here to listen because it’s essential for understanding the content of today’s episode.

Get ready for an episode jam-packed with golden nuggets! Jake, Bob and Christopher cover everything from idols to self condemnation to the limits of our capacity in the healing process. They discuss in greater detail how sexual healing is more than just the healing of sexual things, and why it can take years for us to recognize our need for redemption in some areas of our lives. But have hope! Wholeness through Christ is real and possible and this episode is a huge beacon for those on the journey, especially wives praying for their husband’s healing. You are going to want to sit down for this!

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Show Notes

Guiding Quote

“It is not in our power to not feel or to forget an offense; but the heart that offers itself to the Holy Spirit turns injury into compassion and purifies the memory in transforming hurt into intercession.” (CCC 2843)

Key Points

Sexual healing is more than a healing of sexual things, it’s a healing of our masculinity and femininity
How the excavation/ archaeological process is a rich analogy for the cooperative healing that can happen between God and ourselves
The importance of where we find our identity
The power of an honest spouse in sexual healing
If we’re not living out our commitment of marriage in love for our spouse, then we’re also not honouring God
God is the ultimate healer, because there are things that are beyond our human capacity to transform
The enemy distorts and sets up idols that prevent us from seeing the God’s goodness in world as he intended it
Breaking open an analogy of self-condemnation: coming ‘face to face with the hunchback in the woods’

Practical Application

Where do I find my identity: in what others think or in how God sees me?
What in my life have I turned into an idol, and how might that get in the way of loving my spouse well?
How would my perspective shift if I saw the idols in my life as icons providing a window to God?
Where have I made agreements with the opinions of others that has led to self-condemnation? Go to the Lord in prayer and ask him to love you back to wholeness in those places.

Resources

Theology of the Body Institute from Christopher West
The Good News about Sex and Marriage, Christopher West (book)
Christopher West on Pints with Aquinas (podcast)

Episode 43: Sexual Healing (Part 7) with Christopher West… continued