A Letter to God
Lencho, the rain and the hail
Describe how Lencho's hope turned to despair.
A farmer who needs rain. Lencho's house stands alone on the top of a hill. Below it is his field of ripe corn. 'The only thing the earth needed was a downpour or at least a shower', and Lencho watches the sky all morning, hoping for it.
Rain as money. At last, as the family sits down to eat, big drops begin to fall. Lencho is overjoyed:
- the big drops are ten-cent pieces;
- the little ones are fives.
To him, rain means new coins: a good harvest and money.
Then the hail. A strong wind brings very large hailstones. For an hour the hail falls on the house, the garden, the hillside and the cornfield. The field turns white, 'as if covered with salt'. Not a leaf is left on the trees. The corn is totally destroyed.
'The hail has left nothing.' Lencho says that even a plague of locusts would have left more. The family spends a sad night. They have one hope left: help from God, whose eyes see everything, even what is deep in a person's conscience.
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