I vividly remember a few years ago, at a Carmel Mission docent training event :
The attendees had eaten their meal, and were seated to listen to that night's speaker. To get trained on some sort of Art history, or whatever-the-topic of that night was, for the docent-tour leader's training. I was riveted to the speaker, sipping a bottled water . At a certain point, I must have taken the last sip off of my plastic water bottle, when a hand reached in, bringing another bottled water. It was Jan . He apparently saw that I had an empty water bottle, and had gotten up to go fetch another.
And as the night progressed, I noticed Jan doing the same for the other attendees : If someone finished their last sip off their wine glass or water bottle, there was Jan to add some more to their glass. He was litterally "waiting tables", as everyone else in the room was focussed on that night's speaker.
This caught me off-guard. Because, knowing a little about Jan , I thought to myself : "Why is this guy waiting on US, when, at his stage (over 90 at the time), and prestigious accomplishments, then HE should be the one getting waited on, hand and foot, by others of us younger people ?
It was quite humbling. And it brought to mind Jesus' quote in Matthew 20:26 : That "whomever among you wishes to become great , shall be your servant" . So instead of waiting around to be waited on (and well-deserved) Jan was there showing others the very force of this verse. I was quite amazed and humbled.
So too did Jan and Joan open their house to total strangers, at a time when they perhaps might have wished not-to-be-bothered. I am/was totally humbled to have even known and interacted with Jan. Thankyou Jan !
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