"I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains,
place them delicately into its little coffin,
and bury it in the depths of my memory,
only to have to do it all again tomorrow." Emilie Autumn
The problem with that kind of burial is that while some bury to forget, others bury things like one buries treasures or bones, things to be dug up again, lusted over, gnawed on, buried again, things that, with each cycle, become more corrupted, more corrupting or less satisfying.
One of the benefits of genuine Christianity is that such things can be discarded, buried, and remembered no more, being replaced by things that are better for the current state of our mental health and future happiness.
"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Romans 6:4
Amen to that!
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