New Book

I started reading What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell (another book my brother and his fiance gave me for Christmas). So far, I'm really enjoying it. Gladwell is a writer for the The New Yorker and this book is a compilation of his favorite New Yorker stories. The first one was on Ron Popeil -- the infamous infomercial dude. Well written and interesting story.

The preface has this:
Why is a two year old so terrible? Because she is systematically testing the fascinating, and to her, utterly novel notion that something that gives her pleasure might not actually give someone else pleasure -- and the truth is that as adults we never lose that fascination.

It really struck me. Just like a two year old, I do this with Lord all the time. Yet more advanced than a two year old, I most likely know ahead of time that my actions will not give the Lord pleasure. Sometimes, though, I am still baffled by it, cannot understand it, or flat out dislike the fact that what I want to do is not what He wants me to do.  Here's hoping for maturity...one of these days...