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The Hydra and Other Delicate Creatures
9. The Hydra and Other Delicate Creatures
As a student in an invertebrate zoology class in Woods Hole, Massachusetts,
I was scuba diving around some pilings in order to observe the creatures
living under the water on the pilings. A small hydra, a most delicate, nearly
transparent, creature with thin, one inch long "arms" coming out of
a stalk, caught my attention. Its arms slowly waved in the currents. I suddenly
"saw" in
a new way the dependency of the hydra on the ocean and any food particles
the water currents might bring within its grasp. It seemed helpless, and
it was helpless with regard to going after food, but at the same time it
was perfectly adapted to its ocean life. It was not helpless at all within
the embrace of the ocean. The hydra is like the lilies of the field we are
invited in Matthew 6:28 to consider "how they grow; they neither toil nor
spin."