Alongside our partners at UUs for Social Justice (UUSJ) and the UU Service Committee (UUSC), UU Ministry for Earth facilitated justice movement chaplaincy at Capitol Hill on June 17, 2025. Our group of UUs spoke with dozens of legislators and shared packets of information about UU values and what our faith asks us to advocate for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We will share more about the experience in the coming weeks, but for now, we want to send out a HUGE thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Hill Day! May you be blessed with this poem our justice movement chaplains read aloud at the UUMFE opening worship that day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n“Please”
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
If you are one who has practice
meeting the pain of the world,
we need you.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRight now we need you
to teach us it is possible to swallow
what is weighty and still be able to rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWe need you to remind us we can
be furious and scared and near feral
over injustice and still thrill at the taste of a strawberry, ripe and sweet,
can still meet a stranger and shake
their hand, believing in their humanness.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWe need you to show us how
we, too, can fall into the darkest,
unplumbed pit and learn there
a courage and beauty
we could never learn from the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you have drowned in sorrow
and still have somehow found
a way to breathe, please, lead us.<\/p>\n\n\n\nYou are the one with the crumbs
we need, the ones we will use to find
our way back to the home of our hearts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alongside our partners at UUs for Social Justice (UUSJ) and the UU Service Committee (UUSC), UU Ministry for Earth facilitated justice movement chaplaincy at Capitol Hill on June 17, 2025. Our group of UUs spoke with dozens of legislators and shared packets of information about UU values and what our faith asks us to advocate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":11930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11932,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions\/11932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/uumfe-wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}