Thoughts with Kristin - "Home"

My other blog is going to be used for updates and such, but now in this blog, I am going to blog about things that interest me, and what goes through my mind as a missionary kid in Thailand.
Today's thought is "home".  Have you ever even thought about the word?  I thought about it the other day as we were in Malaysia for visa purposes.  I couldn't wait to get home, but I did not mean home in America.  I meant Thailand.  I looked up the word home in the dictionary, and it gave 5 things.  But this one caught my eye.  -The place or region in which one's domestic affections are centered.  Now when I first came to Thailand last year, I did not call Thailand home.  To me it was just awful.  I was homesick most of the time.  It always felt like everything and everybody was against me.  I would call our house home, just because that was where we lived, but to me, America was my home.  The main reason for that kind of thinking was that I was not yet saved.  I had never truly accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior.  I never had peace about coming to Thailand.  Many people asked me about it, and I would just say that it is going to be an adventure.  Now I see things differently.  I see Thailand as my home.  I belong in Thailand.  In the mind of a teenager like me, something changed that day I got saved.  Some thing clicked.  It was like I knew the reason I was here.  That was why the LORD helped me learn the Thai language so well.  I believe the LORD wanted me here.  So what is a home again?  Home is where you belong.  My home is Thailand.
I know my thoughts may seem a bit cluttered, but that is why I called this blog thoughts with Kristin.  Because it is just my thoughts.  Straight from my head, typed on to the screen.  Hope you enjoy it!!!