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faLL 2012 33 Years FREE but not cheap Hay Bale Feeder Diana Suttenfield 2 Issue 134 Vol. XXXIV, No. 3 Established May 1979 Now on the Web! Contents www.shepherdstowngoodnewspaper.org PUBLISHER Shepherdstown Ministerial Association see ARTWORKS in color! Fall 2012 EXECUTIVE EDITOR Randall W. Tremba Essays, Art & Poetry EDITORS 3 Song of Peace for 9/11. By Randall Tremba Nan Broadhurst Libby Howard 9 Freedom’s Defining Moment. By Dan Vermilya and Keith Snyder Sue Kennedy Mark Madison Wendy Mopsik 11–13 ARTWORKS Fran Skiles. By Nan Broadhurst Sarah Soltow Claire Stuart 14 POETRY Shepherdstown 250th Anthology Ed Zahniser 16 Thomas Shepherd Walks at Midnight. By Georgia Lee McElhaney PRE-PRODUCTION EDITOR Libby Howard 17 EARTHBEAT “Earth Beatles.” By Mark Madison SENIOR DESIGNER 20 Hunger and Other Games for Children. By Sarah Soltow Melinda Schmitt DIGITAL IMAGE EDITOR People, Places & Things Nan Doss PHOTOGRAPHER 4 The Making of an Orchestra. By Wendy Mopsik Jessie Schmitt 5 Jay Hurley. 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I don’t care how sophisticated uestion: Do you know the name of the person It takes more, much more, than formal classes, our rationalizations—Hate cannot drive out hate. who gave the winter coat off his back to a lectures, or sermons to cultivate compassion. It takes Only love can do that. Qhomeless woman and then said: She needed it practice in all the moments of a day. Eleven years ago, two weeks after 9/11, my wife, more than me. If you’re thinking St. Francis, you’re close. What better antidote to the lingering trauma of Paula, and I began a journey around the world. It was Hint: This person cared for recovering alcoholics, 9/11 than this affirmation: The way of love has not been a sabbatical planned nearly a year before. We visited 10 the homeless, the hungry, the sick, injured, and grieving. forsaken. The way of light and hope has not been different countries over 100 days. Few Americans were He cared for immigrants, gays, and lesbians. He once forgotten. The way of forgiveness is still being taught traveling at that time. Most tours had been cancelled. knelt beside a man dying of AIDS and when that dying in a post-9/11 world. Many tourists stayed home. man asked if God hated him, the one kneeling picked No, forgiveness is not easy. And no, it doesn’t In each country we visited—from New Zealand, him up, kissed him, and silently rocked him in his arms. mean you forget what happened to you. And no, it to Kenya, to Greece, Spain and Ireland—our hosts and If you’re still thinking St. Francis, you’re still close doesn’t mean you let people walk over you or beat strangers greeted us with words of deep sympathy for because St. Francis was known to America. We were honored have embraced lepers as though and humbled to receive such they were the Beloved Christ. gestures of goodwill on behalf Alright. One more hint: of our country. This person is the same It seemed the world was person who on 9/11 rushed on the threshold of a new day. into the North Tower of the America’s gaping wound had World Trade Center to offer opened up a moment of grace. prayers for the dying only to The world saw the mightiest die himself from flying debris. nation hurting and humbled; That person would become the no longer invincible but, just first officially recorded fatality like every other nation, vulner- of 9/11. No, of course, it’s not able to profound suffering. St. Francis. It is Father Mychal In that poignant moment Judge, a priest in the Order a song buried deep in the of Franciscan Minors and long- world’s collective heart arose. time chaplain of the New York Not a song of victory or City Fire Department. © Shannon Stapleton vindication or war; but rather Father Judge wasn’t born a song of peace, a song of with an instinct to rush into burning buildings. But, as you up. To forgive, or to be willing to forgive, means peace for all the nations. And if you heard it, please it turns out, he was nurtured in the spirit of St. Francis, you believe the past can be transformed by grace. It don’t forget it. Never let it go. It’s sung in many different a spirit encapsulated in the prayer attributed to the saint. means we can be set free from crippling resentments. ways. Here’s one. And, by the way, you don’t have to be a priest or even a Eleven years ago on September 11, enemies of our Christian to make it your prayer or, better yet, to make it nation danced for joy as we reeled from a devastating This Is My Song your true vocation. attack. They weren’t the first or last to dance upon the This is my song, O God of all the nations, grave of an enemy. A song of peace for lands afar and mine. Make me a channel of your peace: In May last year, nearly 11 years after 9/11, This is my home, the country where my heart is; Where there is hatred, let me bring your love, Americans danced for joy over the death of Osama bin Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine; Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord, Laden. Sweet revenge. But, of course, it wasn’t sweet But other hearts in other lands are beating And where there’s doubt true faith in you. enough to cure the aching in many hearts. With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine. Glee over the death of one’s enemy is as old as the My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean Make me a channel of your peace: hills. Here’s a song 3,000 years old: I will sing to the And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine; Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope, Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider But other lands have sunlight, too, and clover, Where there is darkness, only light, he has thrown into the sea. The Lord is a warrior. And skies are everywhere as blue as mine. And where there’s sadness, ever joy. For those who might think otherwise: That is not O hear my song, O God of all the nations, from the Quran. It’s from the Bible. A song of peace for their land and for mine. Father Judge wasn’t the first or the last to give up Does God intervene that way—to kill some and May truth and freedom come to every nation; his coat that another might be warm, or give a meal that spare others, or is that what certain people in a childish may peace abound where strife has raged so long; another might eat. He wasn’t the first or the last to bring frame of mind think God is like? Some of our ancestors that each may seek to love and build together, light into darkness, hope into despair, or pardon to the thought so, as do some of our current national leaders. a world united, righting every wrong; injured. He wasn’t the first to be a channel of peace or But it doesn’t mean we have to think like them.