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MAY 23, 2022
With Waheguru Ji’s grace, around 15-20 Sevadars humbly join every Saturday morning with some accompanied by their entire family. This includes kids of just 5-year-old to 70+ year old grandparents. As the clock strikes 9:30 am, the corner of the langar hall turns into a U-shaped supply chain assembly line. Chanting the Naam (Waheguru, Waheguru, Waheguru…), all the “goodies” get unpacked and put in place in the order it needs to go in the bag that will be hand delivered to over 200 homeless individuals. The goodies normally include two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a bag of chips, couple of fruits (apple, banana, etc), two granola bars and a bottled water.
These finished bags are then divided across 4 different vehiclesto be taken to various homeless encampments in San Jose California. Sevadars also give lunches and water to the homeless they encounter on their routes, this could be the people we see every day on busy intersections with signs, outside laying in blankets of a strip mall (near 7-Elevens), or found nearly passed out on the sidewalks.
The seva given by the Guru Sahib didn’t stop at just food and water…when the Sevadars learned that the need existed to also to pass out blankets, sweatshirts, scarves, socks, belts, pants, beanies, and gloves periodically. Serving the community for over a year now, Sevadars were blessed to push the boundarieswhen one of the Sevadars took off his shoes and gave them to a poor man and then finished the rest of the route barefoot. There were also plenty of instances of giving up your shirts and sweatshirts during the cold months and that’s what triggered to add additional items.
Getting called names by the ignorant can’t also be ignored. Even going in pairs or team in certain areas to distribute as safety is number one priority. Having a “tough skin” is a blessing by Guru Sahib and joy of getting blessed by so many and having to see smiling faces when a homeless receives the bag of food and water bottle…which in most cases is immediately diving into to enjoy the freshly made sandwich or popping the bag of chips with joy. Just last week a humbled homeless man waited outside his tent, where food is delivered every week, with his folded hands, looking down and speaking softly he opened his hands to hand us over some cash and said please take this as I see you helping us every week. The Sevadars refused and with almost tears rolling out they thanked the man for his so kind gesture.
Who would have imagined an idea given by Guru Sahib of serving 20-30 folks from your garage for fun on a weekend with few families would have led to this? Who says Guru Sahib is not with us?
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