Day One: Traveling to Newmarket Ontario
I left San Francisco on a red eye and headed to Ontario. There was a very beautiful sunset at the airport.
In the morning I arrived in Buffalo, NY where I hopped in the rental car and headed to Canada. The boarder guard seemed a little suspicious that I would enter Canada to attend an ordination. I guess he didn't read the story in the paper about the historic ordination
that will happen tomorrow in Newmarket!Then I drove for about a half hour to stop at Niagara Falls. While it may be a bit cheesy, the rainbow in the falls
made me smile and wonder if my journey was being blessed.Before becoming the sign of GLBTQ pride in the modern day, ancient Christians associated the rainbow with gender queerness. They believed anyone who walked under a rainbow would recieve a miraculous sex change from God(dess)*.
After visiting the falls I set off to Newmarket. And settled in for some rest before the all the ordination activities tomorrow.
*I use God(dess) not only because the 4 congregations that called me name God differently (some use male pronouns, some female and some androgynous). But also to have a gender queer understanding of God(dess) that more accurately matches the greek/hebrew. This is a way of describing God(dess) as both male/female.
-Rev. Megan Rohrer
Communications Chair
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