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Please join us for our Sunday Service at 10 a.m. Sunday Service is also broadcast Live online. You can tune into our Live broadcast on either our Facebook page (@uccplainville) or via our YouTube channel using this link shorturl.at/fiky6 .

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The Congregational Church of Plainville, UCC

The Congregational Church of Plainville, UCC

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Mariam Azeez was in first grade in 2012 when 20 first-graders and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in the same town where she attended school. After seeing a photo of Robb Elementary School students’ backpacks lined up in a row in Uvalde, Texas — never to be picked up again by the 19 students who were killed in another mass shooting — the 15-year-old penned this poem.

During a candlelight vigil at Trinity Episcopal Church in Newtown Thursday night, she begged the country to take action, asking:

When will we let them grow up?

Here is the poem:

WHEN I GROW UP

When a stinger stings / Their last sting / You hear your phone ring

We are bees

Seeds of the earth / Perfection at birth / Pollinators / Immortal / Flying high

But / We are dying off

And we don’t know why

All we do is study in a sanctuary / A home / And draw a little/ Maybe even sing / And take care of our hive

We have parents / And dreams / And hopes / We carry the burden of the world / Because we have time

We will relax later

But when is later / There is no more time / Scientists and politicians say they don’t know why we are dying / When flying / We want to be alive!!

But we DO know why

And the thought of our stingers have always kept us safe / We must never

Use pepper spray / Always keep your phone on / Look both ways when you cross the street / Turn off the lights / This is the door we exit from / This is the room we hide in / This is the desk we barricade the door with / This is the window we wait for rescue from/ This is the hand you cover your mouth with/ This is the pencil you will use as a weapon/ This is the last text you send your mother: ‘I love you mom.’

This is the guard bee who needs to protect the / Children At Play / Because who will

We do know why.

Inside this hive/ We let inside / A bee killer

He waited / For his resentment to turn into hatred / He is not a bee / He has no fuzz / No clear motive / He puts on a yellow jacket / He uses his stinger / His vile wish for a cleansing of the weak / He can use a stinger multiple times/ An apex predator / A monster / A human

When the stinger stings / Their last sting / The hive will ring your phone / To let you know they’ll bring / A mini body bag to your door / They’ll bring cookies / And thoughts and prayers

But since when did such meaningless words ever bring a mother
comfort / Did you think your thoughts and prayers will bring that bee back?

“He was listening to rap music / He was playing video games / He was having a bad day.” / All these things we will soon say / What about our promise? / To protect the earth? / To protect our kids? / But has anyone ever questioned his ability to sting? / Or the way he boasted about his weapon?

I don’t know much / I’m just a little bee in a big world

But what I do know is we let him in

We saw him in all his sinful colors / I can’t say I watched him grow / I can’t say I knew his motive / But i can say while growing up I wanted to become a police officer because witnessing 20 students my age in my town come home in bags

At 6 years old I felt the burden of being the one who had to do something

At 4 years old I said “When I grow up I will become a unicorn”
At 6 years old I said “When I grow up I will become a police officer”
At 8 years old I said “When I grow up I will become a lawyer”

When I grow up I will become a doctor / When I grow up I will become a firefighter / When I grow up I will become a ninja / When I grow up I will become a teacher / When I grow up I will become a veterinarian / When I grow up I will become an actor / When I grow up I will become a detective / When I grow up I will become a baseball player / When I grow up I will become a lighthouse guard

When I grow up I will be a...

I don’t know all too much about the world and its complexities / I don’t know all too much about our functions in society
But I do know this / Every baby bee in this hive / Has said these words

When I Grow Up

When will we let them grow up.

(from Hartford Courant, 5/28/2022) ... See MoreSee Less

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The Congregational Church of Plainville, UCC

2 days ago

Join us this Sunday in the sanctuary at 10 a.m. for Sunday Service.

For those unable to join us in-person a Live broadcast of our Sunday Service will be available on our Facebook page (@uccplainville) at 10 a.m.

A video of our live broadcast will be uploaded to our YouTube channel following service. Our YouTube channel can be found using this link shorturl.at/fiky6

If you would like to follow along, you can view the Order of Worship in one of the following ways:
1) Click on the pictures attached to this post. These can be saved to your device of choice.
2) Click on the .pdf attached to the email sent out from the Church Office. If we don't have your current email, please send it to the Church Office at churchoffice@uccplainville.org so we can add you to our mailing list.
3) You may also view the bulletin on our webpage at www.uccplainville.org under the Worship tab. Click on the Order of Worship tab and choose this week's service.

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Join us this Sunday in the sanctuary at 10 a.m. for Sunday Service.

For those unable to join us in-person a Live broadcast of our Sunday Service will be available on our Facebook page (@uccplainville) at 10 a.m.

A video of our live broadcast will be uploaded to our YouTube channel following service. Our YouTube channel can be found using this link shorturl.at/fiky6

If you would like to follow along, you can view the Order of Worship in one of the following ways:
1) Click on the pictures attached to this post. These can be saved to your device of choice.
2) Click on the .pdf attached to the email sent out from the Church Office. If we dont have your current email, please send it to the Church Office at churchoffice@uccplainville.org so we can add you to our mailing list.
3) You may also view the bulletin on our webpage at www.uccplainville.org under the Worship tab. Click on the Order of Worship tab and choose this weeks service.

Thank you.

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