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Seeing with God's Eyes: Towards a Definition of Beauty

What is beauty?  How would your friends define it?  How about your neighbours, the kids on the playground, shoppers at the mall?  Does the definition change if you are male, female, young or old? I'm guessing the answers would be vastly varied.  I confess at my heart, my answers are confused. What I explain to my daughter, and what I feel when I look in the mirror are at odds.  Beauty can describe a million different things: people, nature, morality, art, etc. I scoured Youtube to see if I could get a feel for how the public understands beauty.  Here are some of the answers I gleaned from this esteemed source :) Pretty, being yourself, being kind, being beautiful on the inside, being strong, being happy with yourself, lovely scenery, life is beautiful, everyone is beautiful in their own way, the physical appearance of a person, the qualities a person possesses, youthful appearance, a certain size of a person, compassion, confidence, being happy, perso...