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Chapter 46 Beautiful Smile and Love
[Former Yugoslavia] Teresa (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)
So let's always meet each other with a smile, because a smile is the beginning of love, once we start loving each other naturally, we will think of doing something for each other.

Poor people are very remarkable people.We went out one night and brought back four people from the street, one of whom was in critical condition.So I told the nuns, "You take care of the other three, and I will take care of this endangered man." And so I did for her all that my love could do.I put her on the bed and saw such a beautiful smile on her face.She held my hand and just said "thank you" and died.

I couldn't help examining my conscience in front of her.I asked myself, what would I say if I were her?The answer is simple, I try to draw attention to myself by saying I'm hungry, shivering, dying, in pain, whatever.But she gave me more and more—she gave me her gratitude.She died with a smile on her face.So did the man we brought back from the drain.At that time, he was almost completely eaten by bugs, and we took him home. "I've been living like an animal in the street, but I'm going to die like an angel, loved and cared for." It's so good, I saw the greatness in him, that he could say if that is the case.He died like that, blaming no one, cursing no one, wanting nothing.Be like an angel - compare yourself to no one.This is the greatness of our people. "I was hungry, I was naked, I was homeless, I was not needed, loved or cared for. And yet you did it all for me."

I guess we're not really social workers.In people's eyes, maybe we are doing social work, but in fact, we are really just practitioners in the center of the world.Because, 24 hours a day, we touch the body of Christ.I think in our family we don't need guns and shells to break the peace, or to bring it.We just need to come together, love each other, and bring peace, joy, and vitality to the soul of every family member back into the world.In this way, we will be able to defeat all the evils that exist in the world.

I am going to use my Nobel Peace Prize money to build a home for the homeless.Because I believe that love begins in the family, and if we can build homes for the poor, I think the love will spread far and wide.And we will bring peace and be a gospel to the poor through this great love.First for the poor in our own family, then for our country, and for the poor of the world.In order to do this, sisters, our lives must be closely linked to prayer, we must be united with Christ in order to understand and share together.There is still so much suffering in the world today.

When I bring a hungry man home from the street, give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, and I will satisfy him, and I will quench his hunger.But when a person sleeps on the street, feeling unwanted, unloved, intimidated, outcast by society—that kind of poverty hurts, it's so unbearable.So let's always meet each other with a smile, because a smile is the beginning of love, once we start loving each other naturally, we will think of doing something for each other.

Heart mark notes
Teresa is a nun. The "Sisters of Charity" she founded spread over more than 100 countries and set up more than 500 charities and places to help the poor.She took in the out-of-school children and street children, and took in the poor dying on the streets... Teresa lived an extremely poor life, and she dedicated everything to the poor, the sick, the orphans, the lonely, the homeless and the dying.

In 1979, the Nobel Committee selected her from among 56 candidates including US President Carter, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to this nun who had nothing but love, and praised her like this when awarding the award: "The loneliest The poorest, the poorest and the dying have received her sympathy and help, and this kind of sympathy and help is not based on the attitude of gifts, but on the basis of respecting the inherent dignity and value of human beings .”

We should indeed give our heartfelt admiration to Mother Teresa, who had the most beautiful smile in the world.Growth is more important than success.

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