What about Bugs?  Well I am going to put this in terms of my heart…. Bugs are creepy! They freak me out & I don’t want them in my house. With that being said, they are spirits too. They live, breath, eat, and eventually die.  Why should their life matter any less?

Tonight my eldest son came to me with a dilemma, my little 5 year old nephew was killing caterpillars and was laughing about it and this really upset my son. He didn’t like this, didn’t agree with this, and wasn’t sure how to “change” my nephews way of thinking and the day before my niece killed a lady bug that my daughter had “saved” and it was UN-necessary and cruel to both the ladybug and my daughter. Long story short it got me thinking about all the times I have killed a bug and it hit me…. “I have killed before”. Ugh, this made my stomach sink.

So my new value that I am creating in myself today is this; IF I feel I must kill a Bug, I will honor its spirit and death by saying a silent “prayer” for the spirit that lived within that bug. I know what you must be thinking, that I have gone mad! But lets take a step back and think about it… how would we feel if we were stepped on by something bigger, or killed because of the way we looked.  Extreme, I know, but still. Every living thing has an energy and every living thing deserves respect on some platform or another.

Bugs…. tiny little spirits that honestly aren’t hurting us (and if they are it is not on purpose but simply their means of survival).  Bugs = Spirits = Respect 🙂