A Blessing Like the Kiss of a Mother

mother and daughter kiss

9×12″ watercolor on paper
July 29, 2012

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Inspired by the following passage from Phantastes by George MacDonald:

I stood one moment and gazed into the heaving abyss beneath me; then plunged headlong into the mounting wave below.

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.

I sank far into the waters, and sought not to return. I felt as if once more the great arms of the beech-tree were around me, soothing me after the miseries I had passed through, and telling me, like a little sick child, that I should be better to-morrow.

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