Glorying in being home

The Scripture says we are not supposed to glory in the things we make with our own hands, she told me, not long after she came home from the hospital, in the late spring. But when I got out of that place, that last time, I stood in my house and it just dawned on me, ‘I’m home. I’m back in my own house. I’m back in my own kitchen.’ And God forgive me, but I gloried in that.

Rick Braggs' mother

quoted in The Best Cook in the World

I know just how she felt. Unlike Bragg's mother, I was not returning from the hospital, which can be like staying in one of the circles of hell. I was returning after 11 days on the road of seeing some of our nation's most glorious natural beauty. And also of equally glorying in meeting and furthering my friendship with Scott after 16 years of podcasting.

Nonetheless, I walked around our home for a full day glorying in being home.