Have you ever used the phrase, "I felt right at home"? It's a pretty good phrase for purposes of describing some degree of comfort about a situation. I'd say Ichiro Suzuki makes himself right at home standing at first base. I'd say that Tom Brokaw was a broadcaster who was at home in front of a television camera. I know people who feel most at home when they are out tending their garden or working under the hood of a car or standing by a river bank with a fly rod in hand or working a Playstation or Xbox.

So, often, this being "at home" business is not meant to be taken literally; it's a figure of speech. I was pondering that thought as I read the first verse of our passage for today:

When he [Jesus] returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. — Mark 2:1

I…