Today as I walked home from work, I saw something that takes place twice a month in my neighborhood. It happens at the first and the middle of each lunar month. Today's lunar date is Feb. 16--so it is now the middle of the month.
In front of about two-thirds of the homes and businesses in my neighborhood there will little "card tables" set up with offerings--snacks, fruits, wine, and insence. Then next to these tables were cans with hot flames licking the air.
Some of the cans were just burning out front with no one around them. Others had people standing next to them still tossing in the "spirit money." It is believed that by burning the money, it is able to enter the spirit world so that ancestors can buy things they need.
Please pray for the Taiwanese.
