The last stop during my 4 hours in Copenhagen, a mass for Climate Justice in the cathedral, with the Danish Queen, with bishop Desmond Tutu, with Archbishop Rowan Williams......and alot of others.
When we were queeing outside the cathedral, my friend Sindre Eide played Oh What a Wonderful World, right in front of a melting polar bear.
Only a very few of the thousands of visitors in Copenhagen that Sunday had got tickets for the mass, most of the Norwegian activists had to watch it all on a huge screen outdoors. I was among the lucky ones. A few days before we left from Norway, I got an email with a ticket, my name written on it, and information that the ticket was personal. The first thing I realised after we left the ship was that I had forgotten my ticket....in a plastic file in my suitcase.
Oh, NO!
We were 1200 people leaving the ship, I sent an sms to my friend Estrid, Sindre's wife, who had sent me the email with the ticket. "Will you believe this Estrid, I forgot my ticket on the ship!!!!!!!"
Seconds later I got a reply:" Don't worry, I printed out your ticket just in case. Let's meet in front of the polar bear before the mass"
That's what good friends are for :-)
How good to sit down in the cathedral before the service started. In silence. In prayers.
In admirations of Thorvaldsen's statue of Christ.
What an honor to be in the cathedral together with the queen.....
...to listen to Archbishop Williams' words......
...to be blessed by bishop Desmond Tutu....
And to be proud because my friend Olav Fykse Tveit has become the new Secretary general for the World Council of Churches, from January 2010.
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Copenhagen will stay in my mind for a long, long time.......
