What Matters Most

Tonight I attended a recovery meeting in the home of someone who had just had open heart surgery.  Not surprisingly, spiritual beliefs and connections were the main topics in the meeting.  I really enjoyed the meeting, in part because being close to death tends to strip away many of the concerns of day-to-day life.  Those concerns cease to matter and discussion turns to things that seem important.  I was reminded of the truth of the phrase I heard early in my own recovery, that “Nothing matters very much and very few things matter at all".