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The American people
have spoken, whether you agree with it or not, you should get behind it as an
American and pray that our new president will do a good job.
Jackie
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."
BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING!
"Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move
your feet."
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