Lord,
We don’t talk often, as I question your existence, considering the horrors in the world, from refugees fleeing Syria to growing homelessness at home. But I wanted to momentarily chat about my new friend Joel Osteen, the second-generation TV preacher whom I met recently at the Time Warner Center before a promotional event for his sunny self-help book, The Power of I Am: Two Words That Will Change Your Life Today (He’ll be back in town October 16, ministering at the Barclays Center.) Lord, I believe Joel, given the robust Q-rating and many talents you have blessed him with, could do even more with his power; assiduously apolitical and perpetually optimistic, he resists talking about injustice. Lord, please put a word in his ear.
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