If the Lord had perhaps sent such a message to us, we would have most probably withdrawn to our room, tried once more to review our life, take maximum advantage of that moment of mercy. Probably we would have thought over that word of God, made choices and tried to live intensely. Once they asked a holy man why he never felt fear, why he was not afraid. People are in fear because they are afraid of everything around them and for everything they possess. However, being face to face with death, everyday keeping one's death in view, everything becomes superfluous to a person.
Death takes the real measure of life.
It clearly sends the message about that from which man should live and draw his strength. Traces that others gladly remember, tracks and ways on which others can pass. Jesus, knowing that his time had come, and because he loved his own who he had taken from the world, loved them to the end, took a towel and basin and washed his disciples' feet. The feet are man's most soiled members. In his love Jesus touched dirty but also wounded human feet, he touched the Achilles' heel of every person.