The Best Explanation!!

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

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, thay 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 exist."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out on 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 didnt want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left, 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 said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers don't exist."

"How can you say that?" Asked the barber surprised. "I'm here, and I'm a barber. And I just worked on you!"

"No! the customer exclaimed. Barbers do not exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside"

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me"

"Exaxctly!" affirmed the customer. "Thats 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.