Weekly Message
Sometimes we get spiritually-valuable messages from the oddest places. This one came to me as an internet message and instead of sitting and writing a regular homilly on this beautiful, first full day of summer, I have chosen to instead, offer the following. Be blessed by it.
Tom
DOES GOD EXIST?
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
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
'You know what? Barbers do not exist.'
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!
'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
That's why there's so much pain and suffering in
the world.'
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