Life is Interesting!

After a late night on Tuesday (with our car trouble and all), we were tired last night and went to bed very early, just before 9:00 PM. At 10:30 PM, we had another earthquake- this one even woke Greg up! It was stronger than the day before. A rather rude awakening I must say! It takes a while to get back to sleep after an earthquake (even a small one that the locals refer to as a tremor), but we did get back to sleep only to experience another one at 1:30 AM. These have not caused any major damage, but in the area of Uganda where they are occurring, the people live in mud huts. Greg was told today that around 40 huts have been damaged or destroyed so for those 40 families who are now homeless, the damage is significant.
One source said that the epicenter of the quake was at a village called Hoima. Today, I have been reading another source that states the quakes are actually on a fault line below Lake Albert- very interesting, indeed! You see, when we were here in 2012 with the building team from FBC, we were told that oil had been found at the bottom of Lake Albert. The problem is that the center of Lake Albert is the dividing line between Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda. Once the oil was found, the disputes about who owns Lake Albert began.
The Lord has been teaching me a lot about one verse in the Bible. Ephesians 6:12 says, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” As the battle over this lake and its oil has heated up between two countries with a history of many occult practices, one has to wonder about these earthquakes. Please consider this as you pray for the people of Uganda and DRC.