What if your scars are part of heaven, when your wife never loves you back, does your sexual past ruin your future? | ACW341
Ask Christopher West
Theology of the Body Institute
4.9 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Questions answered this episode:
- I've been reflecting on how God uses our wounds to reveal His glory. Could our scars remain in our glorified bodies, like Christ's, as signs of His redemptive love?
- I feel emotionally and spiritually neglected in my marriage. How can I love my wife like Christ when she won't respond?
- I converted to Catholicism after a painful sexual past and porn addiction. How do I heal and trust God's plan for my future?
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| 0:00.0 | From the Theology of the Body Institute, this is the Ask Christopher West podcast. |
| 0:15.5 | Hi, podcast listeners. |
| 0:17.5 | Well, hey, everybody. Thanks for joining us again. |
| 0:20.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey, Wendy. Mm, Wendy. I dreamed a dream in times gone by. You did? I did. When life was, what was next year? When life was... I don't remember. |
| 0:37.8 | When hope was high and life worth living. |
| 0:41.2 | I dreamed that love would never die. |
| 0:44.7 | I dreamed that God would be forgiving. |
| 0:46.6 | He is. |
| 0:48.3 | But the reason these lyrics are on my mind, you can tell everybody. |
| 0:53.3 | Yeah, because we had the great gift of seeing a live performance of Le Miserables this week. |
| 1:01.4 | This week we took our two youngest kids who, they're the only two of our five who haven't seen it on stage. |
| 1:09.0 | And it's kind of a little gift we like to give to each of our children. |
| 1:14.8 | And it was not too far away, about a two-hour drive to Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center. |
| 1:22.4 | And anybody who knows me enough to have been in a course of mine or read some of my books, these people |
| 1:30.1 | know how much I love Le Miz. If you're one of those people out there that you saw Le Miz and |
| 1:37.2 | it just went over your head as like, I don't get it, people don't sing their whole lives, |
| 1:42.2 | what the heck's going on here? I can relate to that because the first time I saw Le Mizz, in 1989, when I was just about to turn 20 years old, I had no clue what the heck was going on. |
| 1:57.5 | But life has, I don't know, seasoned me, softened me, opened me to understand art in new ways. |
| 2:07.5 | And the more I've gotten in touch with my own heart and its fears and sufferings and hopes and dreams, |
| 2:14.9 | the more Le Miz has really spoken to my heart. And you helped me. |
| 2:19.3 | That was very early in our marriage, was the second time I saw Le Mizz in 1996, I think. |
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