DOES GOD EXIST?

Note by Belinda: Jane, our cell group study leader, sent this forwarded email, with the subject title, "Holy Conversation," which is the topic we are studying. I had to share!    This   is one of the best explanations on the nature of God that I have ever seen...  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 a loving 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 unkempt.The customer turned back and entered the barbershop 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! That's what happens when  people do not come to me.'  'Exactly!' affirmed the customer. 'That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help.   That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world.' BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS!