A conversation with God

A conversation with God

The little girl sat alone in the hall and looked around. She was about three. They had moved in recently to a new town where Dad was working. It's been just a couple of days in the new house. Dad had left for work, early in the morning and Mom was busy arranging things in the kitchen. She had no company. So she sat quietly and looked around the new house.

A calendar hanging in the hall, fluttered in the wind. She looked up at the calendar. It had the picture of Lord Ganesha. He had the head of an elephant with a broken tusk. He sat on a golden stool, wore a lovely crown, beautiful jewels, a white dhoti and had four arms. He was chubby, cute looking with kind eyes and seemed to be smiling at her. The girl smiled back. There was a chair near the calendar. She climbed on to it and pressed the calendar to the wall so that it would be stop fluttering. 

She then noticed that he held a bowl of laddoo - small, round,  yellow laddoo - in one hand. She held out her hand, nodding her head asking him for some.

"Are you going to have all the laddoo? Won't you give me some?" She asked him with a smile. "Am I not a good girl? Give me some laddoo please."

Mom who was in the kitchen heard it and came over to see whom the kid was talking to. When she saw the child talking earnestly to Lord Ganesha, coaxing him to give her some laddoo, she stood near the door, without the kid noticing and watched in amusement.

Suddenly the doorbell rang. The kid stopped her tete with Ganesha and got down from the chair. Mom came over and opened the door to find a lady.

"Hi I am your neighbour from next door," said the pleasant looking lady.

"Oh! Please come in," Mom invited her inside

"I had been to my native for a few days and just came back today morning", explained the lady. 

"That's why I couldn't meet you the day you moved in. Do let me know if you need anything".

"Thank you so much. Would you like some tea" asked Mom. By now the little girl came over and stood beside Mom.

"Not now.  Maybe some other time. Is that your child? She is sweet," said the lady smiling at the little one. The child smiled back shyly.

"I actually came to give these laddoo that I got from my mother's place, said the neighbour as she held out a small bowl of laddoo.

An astounded Mom took the bowl of laddoo and bid the neighbour goodbye. As she gave the smiling child a couple of the sweets, she looked at the calender. The laddoos in the bowl were so much like those in the picture - unusually small, round and yellow.