AN EARTHWORM, THAT IS.
Earthworms are valuable. The more earthworms. The better the soil. The better the soil, the larger the earthworm. According to Wikipedia, "earthworm activity aerates and mixes the soil, and is constructive to mineralization and nutrient uptake by vegetation." In other words, they produce the nutrients needed for better gardening, and higher yields from that gardening. In the best of fields, earthworms beneath the ground outweigh the livestock above the ground.
Earthworms busy themselves beneath the scenes of life aerating (making air holes throughout the land) and literally producing nutrients from the soil in which they dwell. They eat it, digest it, and dump it back into the ground. And shabam! Better compost. Better soil. Better veggies. As a woman, I want to be like that. I want to work behind the scenes of life, undergirding, supporting and validating my husband. I want to tend my grandchildren, pray for them, listen to them, and guide them in a way that is pleasing to their parents and my Lord.
I don't want to be a Grubworm or a Cutworm. Grubworms feed off the root system of healthy plants and the plants die. Cutworms wait for the seeds to sprout, get a healthy three or four inches and in the dark of the night, crawl up onto the surface of the soil and nibble the tender stalks--destroying whole crops in one evening. What possible good could those worms be? I wanna be an earthworm. [copyrighted, SelahV Today, 2007]
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