These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one just like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you. ‘Mark this, then, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver. Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honour me; to those who go the right way I will show the salvation of God.’ (Psalm 50: 21-23)

A friend has said, "We find the God we are looking for." Another has said, "We find the God we need."

The psalmist's God retorts, "you thought that I was one just like yourself."

We are created by God and of God. We share God's nature. But we have chosen - most of us have chosen - to neglect our origins and go another way.

Along our way we often choose to worship that which reaffirms what we have chosen. We choose to worship our selves.

To give thanks is to recognize what is beyond our self. In thanksgiving we sacrifice a false image of our self and may reclaim our true self.

Above is How Many am I by Annelise Jarvis Hansen.