Mona was a young girl who lived in Mumbai. One night she saw the lull moon rise, climbing slowly across the sky. The moonlight was flooding her father’s corn fields. It was so very beautiful that she praised God for all the wonderful things around her.For her the moon seemed to be at a far distance. She looked at the moon and felt that somebody was sitting in it under the shadow of a tree.
She had heard, “There was an Old Woman who lived there. How lonely she must be,” Mona thought for a while. She felt so sad to think of her.Suddenly a moonbeam danced right into her room and bowed low and said,
“The old woman on the Moon has read your thoughts and invites you for a visit. Won’t you come with me? I shall bring you back in a few days.”Mona’s parents were away on a visit and only the old servant was in the house.
She joyfully accepted the invitation and said, “But how shall I get there? The moon is miles away.” “I shall take you there. All you do is to touch this magic moon rays and sit on my buck and by sunrise tomorrow we shall be to the moon.’’
