We had just visited  “The Stephen Centre School” to which we had brought a young boy who had, during a riot, been thrown into his blazing house by Islamist rioters. His back had been badly burned, and he had lost 6 siblings, but

in the Stephen Centre he could find a safe place to recover and learn. While we were there The school had presented a dramatised version of the stoning of Stephen in the local church. He was a living reminder that such things still happen sand he could learn to forgive, as Stephen had done. (Acts ch 7 v 60  Then he fell on his knees and cried out, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." When he had said this, he fell asleep.)
After this we had an hour to spare so we climbed tot he top of a rock in the centre of the town from which you could get a magnificent view or the River Niger and beyond. From the top I could see this house, built straight onto a rock. A less than ideal place for a rock garden, and the rock must have been very hot to stand on!

However it reminded me that Jesus had spoken about building on a rock, the safest place when wind and rain are beating on the house. Surely this young man had been battered by wind and

storm of the fiercest kind imaginable, yet his life was built on the rock that is Jesus.
While you have the time, build your life on the rock that is Jesus, and His living word, the Bible. The you will be able to withstand the most violent of storms.