Youth Care

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen...
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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 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! 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."

• Today we have higher buildings and wider highways, but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view.

• We spend more, but enjoy less.

• We have bigger houses, but smaller families.

• We have more compromises, but less time.

• We have more knowledge, but less judgment.

• We have more medicines, but less health.

• We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

• We talk much, we love only a little, and we hate too much.

• We reached the Moon and came back, but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors.

• We have conquered the outer space, but not our inner space.

• We have higher income, but less morals , These are times with more liberty, but less joy.
  

• We have much more food, but less nutrition , These are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home, but divorces increase , These are times of finer houses, but more broken homes.
  

• You do not keep anything for a special occasion, because every day that you live is a special occasion.

• Search for knowledge, read more, sit on your front porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs.

• Spend more time with your family and friends, eat your favorite foods, visit the places you love.

• Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment; not only about survival.

• Use your crystal goblets. Do not save your best perfume, and use it every time you feel you want it.

• Remove from your vocabulary phrases like “one of these days” and “someday”.

• Let’s write that letter we thought of writing “one of these days”.

• Let’s tell our families and friends how much we love them.

• Do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life.

• Every day, every hour, and every minute is special. And you don’t know if it will be your last.