Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for....

“ Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one,—Somewhere. ”

Bess Streeter Aldrich

From : A Lantern in Her Hand