Does God Exist?

 This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and

 suffering that I have seen. It's an explanation people will understand:

 A lady went to a beauty shop to have her hair cut and her nails painted

 and trimmed. As the lady 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 beautician said

 : "I don't believe that God exists."

 "Why do you say that?" asked Sheryl who has MS.

 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 a loving God who would

 allow all of these things"

 Then Sheryl thought for a moment, but didn't respond because she didn't

 want to start an argument. The beautician just finished her job and the

 customer left the shop. Just after she left the beauty shop, she saw a

 woman in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and not groomed at

 all. She looked dirty and unkempt.

 Then Sheryl turned back and entered the beauty shop again and she said

 to the beautician: "You know what? Beauticians do not exist."

 "How can you say that?" asked the surprised beautician. "I am here, and

 I am a beautician. And I just worked on you!"

 "No!" Sheryl exclaimed. "Beauticians don't exist because if they did,

 there would be no people with dirty long hair and be very unkempt, like

 that woman outside"

 "Ah, but beauticians DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to

 me."

 "Exactly!"- affirmed Sheryl. "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 they experience so much more pain and than they need to. "