Class 10 A letter to God written by G.L. Fuentes

Theme : This story shoes the extreme faith in God . The writer has tried to depict the invincible and insurmountable faith in God of a simple and poor farmer . He is poor ,honestandhardworking.Hence he wrote a letter to God and asked God to send him money .

    Lesson in points : 

* Lencho was a farmer .

* His house was the only house in the valley and on the top of a hill .

*Lencho's fields needed rain for a good harvest .

*He looked expectantly at the sky and it did rain at last .

* The dropes of rain were like the coins for him .

*But his happiness was short lived as very large hailstones began to fall after the rain.

*The hailstones destroyed all the cropes .

* There would be no crop that year .

*There was a single hope for him that was God would help .

*On the following Sunday ,he wrote a letter to God that he needed a hundred pesos to sow his fields again and to live until the new crop come .

*He wrote 'To God ' on the envelop and put the letter into the mailbox .

*The postman laughed heartily and took the letter to postmaster.

*The postmaster laughed too but he became serious to see one's faith in God .

* He decided to reply and help Lencho .

*He collected seventy pesos from his employees and himself contributed a part of his salary.

*He put money in an envelope and posted it to Lencho.

*Lencho had unbroken faith in God so he was not surprised to see the money in envelope.

* But his happiness was turned into anger as there was only seventy pesos in the envelop at the place of hundred pesos.

*Lencho could never believe that God could ever deceive him .

*So he wrote another letter to God reminding Him that he received only seventy pesos sent by him .

*He asked God not to send the rest of thirty pesos through the mail as the post office employees, were a 'bunch of Crooks '.

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