Beautiful smile and love

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The poor are very wonderful people. One
evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of
them was in a most terrible condition，and I told the
sisters: You take care of the other three. I take care of this one who looked
worse. So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there
was such a beautiful smile on her face. She took hold of my hand as she said
just the words "thank you" and she died. I could not help but
examine my conscience[良心]before her and I asked what
would I say if I was in her place. And my answer was very simple. I would have
tried to draw a little attention to myself. I would have said I am hungry, that
I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something, but she gave me much
more-she gave me her grateful love. And she died with a smile on her face. As
did that man whom we picked up from the drain[阴沟、下水道],
half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home. "I have lived like
an animal in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared
for." And it was so wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could
speak like that, who could die like that without blaming anybody, without
cursing anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel-this is the greatness
of our people. And that is why we believe what Jesus had said: I was hungry, I
was naked, I was homeless, I was unwanted, unloved, uncared for, and you did it
to me.

I believe that we are not real
social workers. We may be doing social work in the eyes of the people, but we
are really contemplatives [修行者、沉思冥想的人] in the heart of
the world. For we are touching the body of Christ twenty-four hours…And I think
that in our family we don't need bombs and guns, to destroy, to bring peace,
just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength
of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the
evil that is in the world.

And with this prize that I have
received as a Prize of Peace, I am going to try to make the home for many
people who have no home. Because I believe that love begins at home, and if we
can create a home for the poor I think that more and more love will spread. And
we will be able through this understanding love to bring peace be the good news
to the poor. The poor in our own family first, in our country and in the world.
To be able to do this, our Sisters, our lives have to be wove with prayer. They
have to be woven with Christ to be able to understand, to be able to share.
Because to be woven with Christ is to be able to understand, to be able to
share. Because today there is so much suffering…When I pick up a person from
the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have
satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But a person who is shut out, who feels
unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out from
society-that poverty is so full of hurt and so unbearable…And so let us always
meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once
we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.