In regard to the questions you asked him: he feels sure
that, although in some ways you may be a financial burden to your children, it
is to them a privilege to look after you; you are their Mother and have given
them life, and through the bounty of Bahá'u'lláh they are now attracted to His
Faith. Anything they do for you is small recompense for all you have done for
them.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, 20 September 1948 to
an individual believer; The Compilation of Compilations, Vol. I, Family Life)