A Calm Like the Kiss of a Mother
11×14″ acrylic on canvas panel
June 17, 2013
Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Phantastes:
“A blessing, like the kiss of a mother, seemed to alight on my soul; a calm, deeper than that which accompanies a hope deferred, bathed my spirit…. telling me, like a little sick child, that I should be better to-morrow. The waters of themselves lifted me, as with loving arms, to the surface. I breathed again, but did not unclose my eyes. I would not look on the wintry sea, and the pitiless gray sky.”
a blessing indeed!