Pet Sins

Sometimes we treat our sin struggles like pets. In C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce, we join a bus trip going from hell to the outskirts of heaven and meet inhabitants of hell. One such inhabitant is a ghost-man who knows that he will be unable to enter heaven with his companion, a small lizard that lives on his shoulder. The lizard whispers things into his ear, both amusing and terrifying him. Even though the man knows that he would be hypothetically better off without the lizard, he is too co...