Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:58:49 -0400

WHAT A GREAT ANALOGY OF GOD FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW,
BY ROBIN WILLIAMS NO LESS.

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering
that I have seen. It's an explanation other people will understand.

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.

When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:
'I don't believe that God exists.'

'Why do you say that?' asked the customer.
'Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God
doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?
Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither
suffering nor pain.
I can't imagine loving a God who would allow all of these things.'

The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't
want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer
left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty
and un-kept.

The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said
to the barber: 'You know what? Barbers do not exist.'

'How can you say that?' asked the surprised barber.
'I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!'

'No!' the customer exclaimed. 'Barbers don't exist because if they did,
there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards,
like that man outside.'

'Ah, but barbers DO exist!
What happens is, people do not come to me.'

'Exactly!' -affirmed the customer.
'That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!
What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him.
That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world.'

If you KNOW God exists, send this to other people---
If you think God doesn't exist, then just delete it!

BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING!

'Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.'
Worry does not empty tomorrow of it's troubles. It empties today of it's strength.