Barbershop tale a good reminder
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Editor,
When I was a boy, my mom cut my hair with manual clippers, the old kind that required her to squeeze and release the handles which made the cutters move back and forth cutting my hair as she maneuvered around my ears and up the back of my neck. I often said “ouch.” Thinking back to those days, I’m very glad for all of the technical advancements that our barbers have at their disposal today.
With Easter just around the corner, our Lake County barbers will be busy helping people look their very best, which reminds me of a barbershop conversation which I read not too long ago.
A fellow went to get his hair cut, and he and the barber began discussing some world problems, as barbershop conversations sometimes do. In the course of the discussion, the barber said that he didn’t believe in the existence of God. “If God existed, there wouldn’t be so much greed, hostility and anger in the world; there would not be so much sin in the world; and what about all the sick people? No, I don’t believe that God exists.”
The haircut completed, the customer left the shop and was immediately confronted by a rather filthy man with long greasy, matted hair. He quickly reopened the door to the barbershop and said, “I don’t believe that barbers exist,” to which the barber replied, “I just cut your hair.”
“No,” said the customer, “Barbers don’t exist; if barbers existed there wouldn’t be people in this world with long, greasy, dirty hair.”
To which the barber replied, “I cannot help people with long, dirty, greasy hair if they won’t come to me.”
The man with the fresh haircut replied, “Neither can God.”
As Easter approaches, we’re reminded that Jesus came to save us from our sins. All are welcome, but he can only save those who come to him.
Harvey A. Town
Polson
