Better door than window

This phenomena repeats itself frequently in our household. I'm trying to watch a game on TV or we're watching a movie, and son number one Ben rambles into the room, and into the viewing path. No matter which seat we've chosen with what angle to the screen, Ben finds a way to stand in the direct line of sight.

As I was growing up, the Shively household would exclaim under these circumstances, "You make a better door than window!" Ben's a fantastic door at times!

Entering this new year, I'm wondering what other line-of-sight obstructions keep coming up, those things which cause clear vision to be blocked, goals to be interrupted, purpose to be distracted. It's fairly easy to get Ben to move out of the way; not so easy to peer around some of these other distractions.

And there's always the turnabout scenario, when my kids catch me ambling into a room and stopping directly in front of their vision field. "Dad, you make a better door than a window." I'm sure it happens in other areas of life too, where I get in the way of others, maybe even in God's way.

So for this new year, I'm going to try to be a better window than a door, or at least if I end up being a door, I'll try to be an open one.