The Cure has Begun

A phenomenal quote from one of C.S. Lewis's books "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", it explains where God has had me:).......

“…I couldn’t undress because I hadn’t any clothes on when I suddenly thought that dragons are
snaky sort of things and snakes can cast off their skins. Oh, of course, thought I, that’s what the
Lion means. So I started scratching myself and my scales began coming off all over the place.
And then I scratched a little deeper and, instead of just scales coming off here and there, my
whole skin started peeling off beautifully, like it does after an illness, or as if I were a banana. So I
started to go down into the well for my bath. But just as I was going to put my feet into the water I
looked down and saw that they were hard and rough and wrinkled and scaly just as they had
been before. So I scratched and tore again and this underskin peeled off beautifully and out I
stepped and left it lying beside the other one and went down to the well….
…the same thing happened again. And I thought to myself, oh dear, how ever many skins have I
got to take off? So I scratched away for the third time… but as soon as I looked at myself in the
water I knew it had been no good.
Then the Lion said… ‘You will have to let me undress you.’ I was afraid of his claws, I can tell
you, but I was pretty desperate now. So I just lay flat on my back and let him do it. The very first
tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. And when he began
pulling the skin off, it hurt worse than anything I’ve ever felt. The only thing that made me able to
bear it was just the pleasure of feeling the stuff peel off.
Then he caught hold of me—I didn’t like that much for I was very tender underneath now that I’d
no skin on—and threw me into the water. It smarted like anything but only for a moment. After
that it became perfectly delicious and as soon as I started swimming and splashing I found that…
I’d turned into a boy again. After a bit the Lion took me out and dressed me." To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many
days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.