"O God, Thou art my God; early will I seek Thee: my soul thirsteth for Thee" (Psalm 63:1a)
Far from being "the worm", I find the earlier you awake to--and this is the kicker--meet with the Lord, the better your (my) day turns out. Perhaps this is how He planned it? It may not have any bearing on those who work graveyard or some such. Those who've been awake since last week for some obscure and bizarre case of insomnia. Forgive me for making light of it. The truth, though, of "the early bird gets the worm" works. How do you do it?
"One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." (Romans 14:5)
I once read how our brains reset upon walking from room to hall or where-have-you. This would account for stepping into a room and forgetting why you were there. Can't say it makes a-hundred percent sense and that's a highly simplistic paraphrase. But the idea has stuck with me. Referring again to "the day", notice how each has its own feeling. A feeling that overlaps the yesterday and to where you forget the cares and worries of the previous twenty-four hours. This, I think, is the idea behind this statement of the psalmist:
"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118:24)
Jesus did it. "And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, He went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed." (Mark 1:35)
Earliest I've ever arisen was four. I was going through deep, dramatic stuff and I couldn't sleep. I had slept but I also awoke and the tenor of the times dictated I get out of bed. Rather than stay in and continue to mull over the things that were haunting my dreams, I chose to wake up and take a walk. I had to do this a couple of times during that period and it most definitely helped. Watersheds, they were, in the working out of the particularly vexing spiritual circumstances in which I found myself. As the "worm" is to the "bird", I received peace and direction and contentment with my lot. God knows how to give to us what we need. And He's always awake.
"He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it." (Romans 14:6a)
But again, maybe you're just not a morning person? No matter. The point I'm looking to get across is that of letting God have your best self before you launch out on the grand adventure that is your day. And if worms are also your thing, then more power to you.