Invasion - True Story about aliens!

I was on a run, when I saw a creature I have never seen before. It was worm or snake-like, 6 inches long, moving faster than a worm, but slower than a snake, and had an anvil shaped head. I was completely horrified, but also interested. I took the creature's picture, wondering if our country was being invaded by an alien life form.

I posted it on Facebook, since my friends had been so helpful with my last post about how to clean 20 years of water stains off my shower stall. Within minutes I had my answer to , "What the @####@%%^&&&& is this?"

"It is a hammerhead worm," said a friend. Apparently it is an "invasive species", carnivorous (WHAT?), predatory (WHAT AGAIN?), and also known as "Terrestrial Planarians." They hitchhike in on transported plants from whatever ghastly place they come from originally (my guess is the bowels of Hell). Then they begin to stalk innocent earthworms. They apparently can latch on to the earthworms, and won't let go. This lovely creature then secretes enzymes onto the earthworm, which begin digesting the hapless earthworm's tissues outside of the hammerhead. Then he uses ciliary action to suck the earthworm goo into his gut. If you are able to sleep tonight after reading this, you are a better person than me.

"After reading Wikipedia about this worm," said another friend, "I don't think you want it in your yard."

In my yard?! I don't want it in my universe!

Still, I don't believe in evolution and I don't believe in accidents. This is a CREATED creature, made by an ALL LOVING, and ALL KNOWING GOD. With all the questioning of God that goes on in the Bible, why has no one, not even once, been quoted as asking, "Why did you create the Hammerhead Worm, oh wondrous Lord!?"

I did not step on the creature. I took his picture and decided he had as much right to life as I do...though had I read about his torture of earthworms before I left his disgusting presence, I might have responded differently. It reminds me that there is so much we don't know about God. Why would a God who loves the placid earthworm, and we can assume He does, create such a horrible enemy? Perhaps it is not a far cry from the psalmist's lament of Psalm 94, "How long will these wicked worms...uh people...win?!"

The psalmist, echoing people throughout history, saw evil seemingly rising up unobstructed. No thinking person has not wondered at one time or another how can God let evil reign even for a second? Yet by the end of Psalm 94, the psalmist reconciles that while he may not know the answer, he knows God. And God will "not abandon his very own possession". We will not be rejected, and justice will "meet up with righteousness." For now perhaps, things look grim, but the God who created us will not abandon us.

Still, I wish there was some way I could alert the earthworms.

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Lord, avenging God— avenging God, show yourself! Rise up, judge of the earth! Pay back the arrogant exactly what they deserve! How long will the wicked—oh, Lord !— how long will the wicked win? They spew arrogant words; all the evildoers are bragging. They crush your own people, Lord ! They abuse your very own possession. They kill widows and immigrants; they murder orphans, saying all the while, "The Lord can’t see it; Jacob’s God doesn’t know what’s going on!"

The Lord will not reject his people; he will not abandon his very own possession. No, but justice will once again meet up with righteousness, and all whose heart is right will follow after. (Psalms 94:1-7, 14, 15 CEB)


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