As I sit and think, talking to myself is what I am really doing. I always think, but at times like this evening I am thinking, I guess you would call it reflectively. I am much more aware of the words that are forming in my mind as I think tonight than at other times when I am just cruising through the day and my mind is sort of on auto pilot mode. At times like tonight is when I am most self aware, that is my uniqueness as an individual, one of a kind, nobody like me, person who has conversations with himself, and can have ideas that are totally from me. As I reflect about my existence I state with conviction in my self talk that God created me as an act of His will, in His image and likeness, for the purpose of being with Him forever in love, unity, and fellowship. God’s intent is that I would enjoy Him forever and that He would enjoy me. I exist, breath, think, very much alive because God chose to create me. As I think about being thankful, I can be thankful for stuff, for circumstances, and for people, but I think what I am most thankful for tonight is that I exist, that God did indeed choose to give me life, and the cool thing is that I am eternal, I will never cease to be self aware, to think, to choose, to love, to enjoy. One of these days soon I will change locations, I will be in heaven with a new body, with a perfect invironment, and I am sure that my thinking will be so much more intelligent, and clear, and unbiased. Wow, I do have so much to be thankful for. There really is never any excuse for me to feel sorry for myself, not even a little bit.