on the Nail Gun-

My employer dropped a nail gun on my head;
I think it was an accident... my wife thought it looked like something out of "night of the living dead".

I remember a wise professor from my college days saying that the one redeeming lesson from the slew of horror films is that if you try to bury something that isn't dead it always comes back to get you in the end.

He was applying this to how so often we "stuff" our emotions/responses to difficult/hurtful experiences and relationships... in the end they always come back up; pain must be dealt with or it will come back as a rotting mess seeking to destroy us.

Freedom from the past starts with dealing with the past:

only Jesus heals, forgives, restores...