Yes their inner person, one must look there freshwest.

Thank you.

No need to say sorry either, what you said was true.

The mask that they hid behind. Painful to see.

been one of my favorites:

Because when I watched this video, it seemed like every half minute or so, it would jump, and a couple of words would be cut out.

More human. So then, I guess I am no more human than Adolf Hitler. No more human than Fred Phelps. No more human than George Zimmerman.

What was I thinking with this conceit that I am better than a mass murderer or a serial rapist?

Oh, foolish pride.

I did get sick of Osteen though. At first I didn't like him at all. This soft spoken preppy guy saying people should not criticize President Bush.

Then I sorta like him. He was funny and upbeat and kinda inspiring.

Then I got tired of it. His constant "God has great plans for your life". My uncle, a retired postal carrier is a big fan. Or was. Maybe he got tired of him too. But my uncle makes the point. In Osteen's eyes, my uncle is a failure. He never did anything great. He didn't write a book. He wasn't President of a University. He didn't patent a new invention or start a multi-million dollar business.

Well, he's only 77, maybe there's still time for God to do something "great" with him.

The simple fact though, is that most people never will do something that 'the world' recognizes as great. We won't even win bronze medals at the Olympics. Most of us, indeed, will not even place in a high school meet.

So why is it seemingly NOT good enough for Osteen if somebody is just a hard-working postal carrier faithfully doing a job for thirty years? Why is it seemingly NOT good enough for Osteen to be a good father to three sons?

I quote Martin Luther King's explanation of greatness.

"Everybody can be great. Because everybody can serve.

You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.

You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." - Martin Luther King

But that still comes back to comparisons. Some people are great, they serve. And other people are not. They either don't serve or they do much dis-service to the world. Much more harm than good.

Everybody CAN be great, but unfortunately, not everybody IS great.