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To begin I must say I think the saying "Home is where the heart is" about sums it up. A house is a structure named a home that people put their belongings in and use as a shelter from weather. A house can have unwelcome guest, and pest and leaks and damage. A home is a sanctuary that makes you feel hopeful, loved, cherished, happy, and mostly safe and secure. All those things you can get anywhere. Think about it this way, many people when they grow up and move out on their own, to their own little house and their own little family always go HOME to visit. Does that mean that their house is not their home? Not necessarily, maybe it just means they have more than one home. Perhaps anywhere you end up in the world could be your home. Maybe it is just the ideas of home that make your house a home, but when you move and you say I miss home, is it the actual building you long for, or is it the memories of being in that building? The marks you put on the building? The flowers you planted? Those are all things you can do at your new house to make it feel like home. Home is a feeling. Not a structure. A home does not allow unwelcome guest such as danger, anger, and ill will. There is no room in a home for that. If there is unwelcome guest showing their ugly heads and trying to enter, a house doesn't say go away. The people who love their home say go away. The saying " a broken home" does not mean the structure is broke it means the feelings are being tested, troubled, and possibly torn apart, yet the structure is still standing. Now don't get me wrong it is possible to feel safe and secure in a house, but then you have to think why do you feel safe and secure there? Is it the structure or the things that have happened there? A house is a structure and "HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS".

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