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I made up a new song a couple days ago. It’s called I’m So Glad I’m Not a Worm. It’s sung to the tune of Everybody Ought to Know. 
It goes like this:
I’m So glad I’m not a Worm
I’m So glad I’m not a Worm
I’m So glad I’m not a Worm
Eating dirt all day.
It was originally called I’m So Glad I’m not a Dog. It came to me as I was taking a pail of table scraps out to the compost pit at the back of the mission. As I approached, three mongrel dogs crawled out of the pit and scampered away. I thought how glad I was that I wasn’t a dog like that, and began singing, “I’m so glad I’m not a dog.” As I thought about those words, I realized that there are probably some people in the world that would like to be dogs, especially a pet dog in the United states. Most pet dogs in the U.S. have it made. They have all the comforts of home. They live better than most people in the world. I read recently that in 2012, Americans spent over 53 billion dollars on their pets, a large majority of those pets being dogs. I read a mission web site that said that Americans spent as much money on their pets Halloween costumes as they did on helping to send the gospel message to the unreached people groups of the world (310 million dollars). It’s a dog’s life, and it’s a pretty good one. So I changed the words to I’m So Glad I’m not a Worm. Although I expect to receive a scathing email any day now from the NAAW (National Association for the Advancement of Worms).
What I am really saying when I sing “I’m so glad I’m not a worm” is that I am glad that I am a chosen, elected, predestined from the foundations of the earth, child of God, who daily experiences the riches of God’s love, mercy, grace, kindness, gentleness, goodness and provision of all my daily needs and most of my wants because He Loves Me and wants me to be happy. Much better than being a worm. Although, maybe I am a worm at heart, or used to be.
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Alas! and did my Savior bleed
And did my Sovereign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?
At The Cross by Isaac Watts
To Enjoy God 