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Nearly every congregation I've visited or attended has a Lord's Supper table similar to ours—with “This Do..” or “Do This in Remembrance of Me”.  Some also have 1 Cor 11:25.  Normally we take this to be—Do This in Remembrance of What I am About to Do.  Maybe that is the entire meaning of what He said—but maybe there is more.

We had a big storm Friday night, I was nearly asleep and heard a wailing from upstairs, went to look and my boy was at the top of the stairs yelling—I don't like this—as the rain beat against the house, lightning flashed, thunder boomed.  Can't say I blamed him, I didn't like it either.  He came down and buried his face in my neck and grabbed onto me like I could keep him from being sucked through the carpet.   I put him in my bed and he went right to sleep.

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In the 4th chapter of Mark, Jesus and his Apostles had an experience with a storm--(beginning in v. 35)  On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side." Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him.  And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?" Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.

Now, there is a big difference between what I could do for my boy and what Jesus did—I just put the boy in bed while the storm continued, Jesus stopped it.  Maybe this is something Jesus wants us to remember—not just that He died for our sins and gives us the hope of eternal life, but Do This in Remembrance of Me, the master of “Ocean and Earth and Skies.”