Also known as Meat-Bag, this is a slang term referring to the human body as an expletive.
Tonight, I became frustrated with the annoyances that come with being ‘trapped’ inside a human body. I have never experience this feeling before, but now I think I know what people mean. Sometimes my Spirit feels like it’s wanting to leave this prison, and maybe that sounds suicidal, but it’s not. It’s just how I feel – right at this moment. Like a prisoner in a mobile cell, doomed to this finite flesh which I can only escape in one of two ways:
- to die
- to be taken by God, which apparently is different
I want to leave this body and free my Spirit. I want to soar the way I feel I am meant to do. I want to leave the bondage of pain and having to pee all the time, of getting fat and old and ugly. What a nuisance.
This really reminds me a lot of the old slave spirituals. “Swing lo, sweet chariot… comin for to carry me home!” I think in the west it is a very negative thing to want to escape… or to write about things like being trapped in a crappy old body like you did. But i think that it is so important for us to hunger after the moment in time when we can finally be in the presence of our Lover… thanks for reminding me!
Wow, old slave spirituals, huh? Crazy.
Yes, it can feel like a negative thing – wanting to leave my body. But I bet every person on the planet thinks of this at some point, which is not to say it’s healthy to do so, but normal. I’m glad I was reminded of this as well – I felt I needed a swift kick in the pants and God is always faithful to deliver