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To you, Pilgrim!
Here you find an open door
to a quiet room.
Go right in!
You are expected.
Sit down on old chuch pews,
Here is shelter. Here is peace.
You, pilgrim by the open sea
on your way from cradle to the grave.
Come in!
The Master said: I am the door.
Come to me with your heavy burdens.
I will give you rest.
Come to me with your thanks for life.
Come with what fills your heart.
Gracious God,
bless the «Quiet Room».
Let it be a meeting place.
Where you find us and
we find you.
In the name of Jesus.
Amen.
Translated from a poem by Anne Sofie Haarr.
From the opening of the "Quiet room"
at Obrestad lighthouse in 2013.