Ask Your Mother

Mother and Child, Oil on Board, 36"x42", © Robin Baring

A student once asked the lord for something from the world, and he said, "Ask your mother, and she will give you something from another realm."

Sometimes I come across little messages in the most magical ways. This is from a friend's book*, neatly tucked away on the bookshelf that I walk by several times a week. Today, the book begged me to open to a page with the above quote. It had great personal significance to me... mostly validation.

* From the Gospel of Philip, The Gnostic Bible