Let us thank God for the opportunity that we all have together today, for this gift of peace that reminds us that we have been created to live that peace
It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says we are liars if we say we love God, and we don't love our neighbour. How can we love God whom we do not see, if we do not love our neighbour whom we see, whom we touch, with whom we live.
I never forget an opportunity I had visiting a home where they had all these old parents placed in an institution and perhaps forgotten. I saw in that home they had everything, beautiful things, but everybody was looking towards the door, without a single smiling person. I turned to the Sister and I asked: How is that? How is it that the people they have everything here, why are they all looking towards the door, why are they not smiling? They are expecting, they are hoping that a son or daughter will come to visit them. They are hurt because they are forgotten, and see- this is where love comes. That poverty comes right there in our own home, even neglect of love. Maybe in our own family we have somebody who is feeling lonely, who is feeling sick, who is feeling worried, and these are difficult days for everybody. Are we there, are we there to receive them, is the mother there to receive the child?
To see so many young boys and girls from the west given into drugs shocked me, and after trying to find the reasons why, the answer was: Because there is no one in the family to receive them.Their parents are too busy , young parents are in some institution, therefore the child lingers on the streets and gets involved in something. As peace is the main discussion, these are things that break peace. I however, feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war,killing and murder by the mother herself. We who are standing here - our parents wanted us. We would not be here if our parents would do that to us.
Our children, we want them, we love them but millions are dying deliberately by the will of the mother. This is the greatest destroyer of peace today. If a mother can kill her own child- what is left for me to kill you and you kill me- there is nothing between. Let us make this year that we make every single child born, and unborn, wanted. We are fighting abortion by adoption, we have saved thousands of lives, we have sent words to all the clinics, to the hospitals, police stations - please don't destroy the child, we will take the child. So every hour of the day and night it is always somebody, we have quite a number of unwedded mothers- tell them come, we will take care of you, we will take the child from you, and we will get a home for the child. And we have a tremendous demand from families who have no children, that is the blessing of God for us.
the poor people are very great people. They can teach us so many beautiful things. They are people who maybe have nothing to eat, maybe they have not a home where to live, but they are great people. 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 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 one word only: Thank you - and she died.
She gave me her grateful love and she died with a smile on her face. Another man picked up from the drain, half eaten with worms, could die without blaming anybody, without cursing anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel- this is the greatness of our people.
I believe that we are not real social workers and that we don't need bombs and guns to destroy to bring peace. We just need to 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.
There is so much suffering, hatred, misery, and we with our prayer, with our sacrifice are beginning at home. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.
here I am talking with you- I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people and find out about your next-door-neighbor. Do you know who they are? There was once a Hindu family with eight children, who had not eaten for a long time. I visited them with some rice and I saw hungry children. The mother she took and divided the rice, then she went out. When she came back I realized that she gave some rice to the Muslim family next door.The children were happy with sharing, and were happy with their sharing mother. So this is where love begins- at home.
Let us thank God that we have had this opportunity to come to know each other, and this knowledge of each other has brought us very close.. 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 that 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 good news to the poor. The poor in our own family first, in our country and in the world.
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 that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from society - that poverty is so hurtable and so much, and I find that very difficult. maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.
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. Christ in our hearts, Christ in the poor that we meet, Christ in the smile that we give and the smile that we receive. Let us make that one point: That no child will be unwanted, and also that we meet each other always with a smile, especially when it is difficult to smile.
I think that this is something, that we must live life beautifully, we have Jesus with us and He loves us. If you become a burning light in the world of peace, then really the Nobel Peace Prize is a gift of the Norwegian people. God bless us!
Lecturer comments : Improve on pronunciation, take up a few classes to improve more and it will be perfect
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