Grave Sweeping Day

The smoke rising from the hillside first caught my eye, absorbed in posting the blog below I hadn't noticed that the hillside outside our window was swarmed with people paying tribute to their ancestors. On this semi- annual Chinese holiday family members gather at graves to sweep, burn incense and worship their ancestors. I took these photos out of our window on the 14th floor. I appreciate how the Chinese honor their dead, but it grieves my heart to see their worship. How I long for them to encounter the one true, living God. Tomorrow we should have another good show as the monkeys come to eat the offerings of oranges left behind. Sad.