IF GOD EXISTS

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and sufferingthat I have seen. It's an explanation other people will understand.A lady went to a beautyshop 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'texist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neithersuffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all ofthese 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 thecustomer left the shop. Just after she left the beauty shop, she saw a womanin the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and not groomed at all. She looked dirty and unkempt.Sheryl turned back and entered the beauty shop again and she said to thebeautician: "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! Whathappens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him. That's whythere' s so much pain and suffering in the world."