BIOSPHERE Christians don't just survive the storms, we can thrive through the storms; they make us stronger. In the early 1990s, Biosphere 2 was built near Tucson, Arizona. It was a closed-environment in which plants and animals were to live together separate from the earth's environment. The experiment was basically a failure and it's now more of a tourist attraction. Every weather condition could be reproduced except one: wind. The researchers discovered the trees bent over and soon snapped from their own weight because there was no wind resistance to make the roots of the trees stronger--they didn't have a good foundation. When you see trees bending in the storm, they're just getting stronger. We're the same way. God knows when we survive the various storms of life, it only makes us stronger too.