@brittarnhild
I am trained and ordained as a deacon in the Church of Norway. I was ordained in 1987, but it was only this year that the deacons in my church were allowed to wear a stole.
My best friend is an artist, and as we are planning a special service in the Nidaros cathedral in March neat year where our two bishops will lay stoles on all the deacons in the diocese, I have asked her to creat and make mine.
She will make stoles for several of us, and today we met her to start the process of deciding what we want.
The Malteser cross will be on our left shoulder. We will have four different stoles. One green. One purple. One red. One white. According to the colours of the seasons in the church.
Added to the cross can be another symbol. Or as my friend told me - let me know a quote from the Scripture which means something special to you, and I can embroider it into the lining. Not to be seen, but for you to know.
Now I am sitting here with my Bible, trying to decide which quote to use.
