this chance for beauty

abstract
ab-stract
adj.
1. Considered apart from concrete existence: an abstract concept.
2. Not applied or practical; theoretical. See Synonyms at theoretical.
3. Difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract philosophical problems.
4. Thought of or stated without reference to a specific instance: abstract words like truth and justice.
5. Impersonal, as in attitude or views.
6. Having an intellectual and affective artistic content that depends solely on intrinsic form rather than on narrative content or pictorial representation:

beauty
beau-ty
n.
1. The quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or color, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality.
2. One that is beautiful, especially a beautiful woman.
3. The combination of all the qualities of a person or thing that delight the senses and please the mind

I believe, by this definition, that all beauty (the combination of all the qualities of a person or thing that delight the senses and please the mind) is actually abstract ( considered apart from concrete existance; difficult to understand)
Yet beauty is there, you can feel it in your spirit, in your heart. I believe it is God's way of enlightening the world (bringing light in). But I read somewhere that it is a gift of the higher aspects of one's being when one can see beauty in all things. In even the grotesque, or mundane. It is easy to see the beauty in a sunset, or a flower, or a star. How many of us can find the beauty in human tragedy, in the suffering of souls? Who among us can look at the image above and think "That is truly beautiful"?