Class Xth:- A Letter To God

 • Crest: Top of a hill

• Dotted: Full Of

• Downpour: Heavy Rain

• Intimately: Closely, completely

• Exclaimed- cry out suddenly in surprise, strong emotion, or pain.

• Regarded- Consider Or Think Of In A Specified Way

• Draped- Adorn, Cover, Or Wrap (Someone Or Something)

• Hailstones- A Pellet Of Hail

• Resemble- Have A Similar Appearance To Or Qualities In Common With (Someone Or Something); Look Or Seem Like.

• Exposing- make (something) visible by uncovering it.; reveal

• Amiable- Friendly And Pleasant

• Predict :- forecast, future telling

• Expression:- Appearance

• Instructed :- told, taught

• Troubled :- worried

• Tap:- to strike lightly

• Shake faith :- disturb the belief 

• Charity :- donation , help

• Bit:- Slightly, small

• Deed:- Work, act

• Slightest :- Minimum

• Wrinkling:- Bend, fold

• Blow:- Sudden stroke (by something)

• plague- a destructively numerous inflow or multiplication of a harmful animal, infestation

• locusts- Insects which fly in big groups and destroy crops

• solitary:  Existing alone; lonely.

• conscience- an inner sense of right and wrong, Mind, Moral sense

• ox of a man- hardworking, very strong man

• daybreak- The time in the morning when daylight first appears, morning

• contentment- Satisfaction

• goodwill- friendly, helpful, or cooperative feelings or attitude

• resolution- a firm decision to do or not to do something.

obliged- grateful

• shower:- less quantity of rain

• supper:- dinner

• Approaching :- coming

• Cent:- small money like paisa in India

• Regarded :- looked

• Evident:- became clear

• Stuck to:- maintained, adhered to

• Contentment:- Satisfaction

• Denied:- Refused

• Affixed:- pasted, fixed

• Rest:- Remaining, Balance

• Crooks:- Dishonest persons

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A Letter To God 

by G. L. Fuentes

*Lencho’s house and crop*

Lencho lived in a valley. His house was the lonely house in the valley. It was situated on the top of a low hill. From there one could see the river and the fields.Lencho had a good crop.But the crop needed rains badly.

*It starts raining*

Lencho saw the sky in the north. The sky was full of rain clouds.His wife was preparing the dinner that time.He told her that God willing it would rain.Soon big drops of rain began to fall.Lencho went out to feel the rain on his body. He was very glad.He said that the drops of rain were new coins.

*Hailstorm and loss therefrom*

But soon the rain turned into hailstones. The fields became white as if covered with salt.The crop was totally destroyed. Lencho became sad. He felt that they would go hungry that year. Also they would have no seeds for the next crop.

*Lencho writes to God*

But Lencho had the last hope : help from God. He was sure that no one dies of hunger. He had a great belief in God. The following sunday he went to the post office. He wrote a letter to God to send him one hundred pesos. He wrote ‘God’ as the address.

*Postmaster collects money for Lencho*

An employee of the post office showed this letter to the postmaster. The postmaster laughed seeing the address.He wished to have such a faith in God. By reading it he found that the writer needed money. He took the letter seriously and to keep the faith of the writer in God unshackled,he asked all his employees to give some money in charity. He too donated a part from his salary.

*Money sent to Lencho*

The postmaster could collect only seventy pesos this way .He put the money in an envelope and addressed it to Lencho.He wrote a single word on it ‘God’ as signature.

*Lencho receives the money*

The following Sunday Lencho came to the post office. He asked if there was any letter for him. He was given that letter. Lencho was not surprised on seeing the money. He got angry when he counted the money. He felt that God could’not have made a mistake.

*Lencho’s letter to God, calls post office employees crooks*

Lencho wrote another letter to God. He put it into the mailbox. The postmaster opened it. Lencho had written to God in that letter that he had received only seventy pesos although he had asked for one hundred pesos. He asked God to send him the rest, but not through the mail.For him the employees of the post office were bunch of crooks who had stolen thirty pesos from the money sent by God.