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Dont Let The Urgent Take The Place Of The ...
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007 (message contributor)
"Dont let the urgent take the place of the important in your life. Oh, the urgent will really fight, claw, and scream for attention. It will plead for our time and even make us think weve done the right thing in calming its nerves. But the tragedy of it all is this: When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern."
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Apr 23, 2004
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