Well, this one was... weird.
I personally don't like the second-person-omnipotent way of telling a story. It reminds me too much of the choose your own adventure books, and those were fun, but trashy. It also doesn't ever seem to make sense to tell a story like that. I mean, if I know what happened, since it happened to me, why are you telling me? In a choose your own adventure book it makes sense. In a letter it makes sense, but as a story? I think not.
The content of the story was kinda fun actually.
I like the idea of treating god and the archangels as people running around New York. It kind of fits nicely.
On the other hand, I'm conflicted as to whether this whole story isn't a parable for somebody's (the author's?) relationship with god or their own faith. There were enough puns in there to make me doubt the "innocence" of the story. (Innocent meaning it's just a story, no deeper meaning implied. And before the flames start: that is not a simple equation, puns=deeper meaning. It's just that here it seemed to fit. Those puns sort of implying something else.)
But all that (except for the first part) was on retrospect. While listening I found it easy to lose myself in the story, and I was swept up by it, although those questions did bother me a little from the corner of my mind. The lack of closure or a resolution to the story left me feeling a little at a loss though. When the theme music came back on I was like "Wait, it's over? How is that possible? That wasn't an ending!" As if the author had run out of words or perhaps hit some ambiguous goal ("After 3 hours I stop writing").
The little love story was sweet, and interesting, if only for the people who were in it. (Is god a people?)
But what I mostly enjoyed was the reading. Very well done. And I like how the rabbi was supposed to have a nice Jewish Brooklyn accent, but she ended up sounding like a nagging Jewish mom from Brooklyn. Which was cute. And funny.
So, yeah. I have very mixed feelings about this story. And I'm not even going into the religious ramifications.