Homeless?

I was speculating the other day, what makes a home. What is it that makes us say, "I am home" about any particular place that we live? 'Home' is not just a place where you stay...it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the length of time you stay there either. There are times also when a place you once called home, for one reason or another, ceases to feel like home any longer. All this is speculative, of course. There is no really quantitative way to define 'home'. I can however give a few of the qualifiers for what makes a place feel like home for me.
One of the first things is that it has to be comfortable. Physically comfortable and emotionally comfortable. If I have to be careful or change all my habits, if I don't feel like I can have people over, then it isn't home. People make home mostly though. If I am living with people, then of course, they become family...they have to be, because who you live with needs to be people you love, trust, and feel completely comfortable. But you also need other people, because otherwise, it is just like being on a long visit with family. The faster I make friends on the outside, the faster a place feels like home. Of course, there is always the necessity of finding a church to be a part of,
but the role played by a church community can vary as well. If you have a lot of Christian friends outside of church, it may not play as large a role than if it is your only connection with other Christians. The Church, the body of Christ as a whole and the fellowship found therein, is vital to my survival in any environment. Anyone, no matter how homeless, can thrive with the body of Christ to ground them.