📸 The Gift of Seeing the Small Things

My friend, Heman Shih — an architect with a keen eye for beauty — shared this incredible pair of images (see image): a hummingbird hawk moth sipping nectar from bergamot flowers. It hovered there for over half an hour, doing what it was created to do. Most of us might walk by and never see it — but not Heman. I’m beginning to think he’s got a “third eye” for beauty, and for the fingerprints of the Creator.

This little creature, often mistaken for a hummingbird, is actually a hawk moth (also called sphinx moth or hummingbird moth). Did you notice this moth has the name of two birds? Hummingbird and Hawk. Turned out form and size are the components for naming. Interesting, isn’t it.

But it’s smaller than a hummingbird — only 1 to 2 inches long — and yet it possesses everything necessary to function in God’s great design: wings, eyes, a feeding tube, a nervous system, a heart. In Chinese we say it has 五臟俱全 — all its vital organs, just like a full-sized animal or human.

✨ Nothing like this “just appears.” You can’t Big Bang this into existence by accident. Its hovering flight, its purposeful movement from flower to flower, its pollination work — it all speaks of intentional design, not randomness.

📚 Did you know?

Hawk moths are important pollinators, especially for long-tubed flowers that bees or butterflies can't reach. Some plants are exclusively pollinated by these moths. At dusk or dawn, they emerge quietly, fulfill their purpose in nature, and disappear again. No fanfare — just faithfulness.

🌱 And perhaps that’s the lesson:

God’s creation doesn’t always shout — sometimes it whispers.

Sometimes the smallest creatures preach the loudest sermons… if we’re willing to see and listen.

“Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much…”

— Luke 16:10

“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.”

— Luke 12:6

In a world that prizes visibility, we often forget that being small does not mean being insignificant. Jesus repeatedly pointed to the smallest — the mustard seed, the lost coin, the child, the sparrow — to show that eternal value has nothing to do with size.

So let’s celebrate the quiet wonders.

Let’s notice the overlooked.

Let’s give thanks for the hummingbird hawk moth — and for friends like Heman who help us see what we would have missed. 🙏✨🦋

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