📸 看見微小中的偉大... The Gift of Seeing the Small Things ...
- josephyu4
- Aug 14
- 4 min read
上主創造的大自然，有許多令我們意想不到的地方。今次余文正弟兄為大家介紹一種奇妙的昆蟲——蜂鳥鷹蛾，就是其中一個好例子。牠個子小，但是功用大，盡顯上主的設計心思……
這是我的朋友建築師 Heman Shih 所分享的一組動人照片：一隻蜂鳥鷹蛾（又稱天蛾、蜂鳥蛾）在飲用佛手柑花蜜，竟停留了半個小時之久，專注地完成它在自然界的使命。大多數人可能走過也未曾察覺，但 Heman 看見了。我開始覺得他有一雙能看見「第三層美」的眼睛 —— 能看見大自然，也看見造物主的筆觸。
這種看似蜂鳥的小動物，其實是一種鷹蛾。其英文名字（Hummingbird Hawk Moth）用上了兩種雀鳥的名字：蜂鳥和鷹，體形和大小成了命名的元素。奇妙嗎？
雖然牠的飛行姿態與蜂鳥極為相似，但是體型更小，一般僅有 1 至 2 吋長。牠雖微小，卻擁有所有完整的生命結構：眼、翅、長喙、神經系統與心臟等，五臟俱全，功能齊備，絲毫不馬虎。
✨ 這樣的生命，絕非偶然。這不是「大爆炸」的隨機產物，而是充滿設計感與智慧的傑作。從花與花之間輕盈掠過的身影，到牠為無數植物授粉的貢獻，每一處都顯出造物主的心意與奇妙安排。
📚 你知道嗎？
鷹蛾是極重要的授粉者，尤其對於花管較長的植物，牠們是少數能深入其中的昆蟲。許多植物甚至完全依賴鷹蛾授粉。牠們在黎明與黃昏間默默現身、完成使命，無聲地消失。不求注目，只求忠心。
🌱 或許，這正是它們帶給我們的提醒：
上帝的創造，不總是用吶喊；有時是低語。
最小的生命，也能傳遞最大的真理 —— 只要我們肯停下腳步，安靜聆聽。
「人在最小的事上忠心，在大事上也忠心…」（路加福音 16:10）
「五隻麻雀不是賣兩分銀子嗎？但在神面前，一隻也不忘記。」（路加福音 12:6）
在這個強調「可見度」的時代，我們常忘了：微小不代表無用，無聲不代表無價。
耶穌一次又一次用最小的事物 —— 芥菜種、麻雀、孩童、失落的錢幣 —— 來傳遞天國的價值觀。
讓我們學習去看見那被忽略的，也為蜂鳥鷹蛾獻上感恩 ——更為像 Heman 這樣的朋友致敬，因為他們幫助我們看見原本錯過的美好。🙏✨🦋
📸 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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