The Energy of Redeemed Sexuality

I found this story on a website devoted to C.S.Lewis. https://www.cslewis.com/spiritual-sins-are-worse/

I encourage you to visit there and read the whole thing as there are several useful inspirations there which should be helpful to many of us. Here is just one excerpt:

There is one definite exception. The Ghost whose sin is lust provides the only instance in which sin is represented by an external thing. This man is tormented by a small red lizard clinging tenaciously to his shoulder. A flaming spirit—so bright he can barely be looked at—is trying patiently to help him. This angelic creature asks repeatedly for the man’s permission to kill the lizard. The tortured man is terrified of the pain this will involve, but he finally, in desperation, agrees. The heavenly “Burning One” rips the lizard from the man’s shoulder and destroys it. The man, in agony, thinks he’s “done for”—but he is not. The lizard, though first killed, rises transformed in to a glorious stallion that the redeemed man mounts and rides off on, to the glorious brightness of heaven’s “everlasting morning” (Chapter 11). The stallion is the energy of redeemed sexuality. A sexuality that was initially hellish bondage and relentless torment is transformed into heavenly freedom and powerful momentum.