True Beauty

So if a beautiful flower grows up in the middle of the woods and no one ever sees it, is it beautiful? I've heard it said that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder---but what if it is never beheld? If no one really appreciates something for what it is, does it lose its value?

So many of the quandries of life come down to a matter of definitions. What makes something beautiful? What makes something valuable? Is it simply if somone values it? Or finds it so? I had a professor once say that beauty is NOT in the eyes of the beholder--it is truth and the evidence of God that makes something beautiful. That is why you can find a story beautiful, or a poem--because it speaks to our hearts of truth and goodness, even though it's not visible for us to see.

If that's true, then beauty is never wasted--any kind of beauty. Because beauty that doesn't show evidence of God, isn't true beauty at all, and that which is true, is all for Him anyway. And God has never needed man to acknowledge His glory to be glorious.