Comments on: My Favorite Teacher Was Retarded

By: Linda Pugh

Linda Pugh — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:22:43 +0000

What a precious little girl! She was (and I’m sure still) beautiful!

By: Steve Sr.

Steve Sr. — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:28:39 +0000

Wonderful story for this MLK weekend. Blessings…

By: Char

Char — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:15:18 +0000

Mike, I first heard you speak a long time ago at the Pepperdine Lectureships, the year the theme was on Job. You gave a keynote sermon, and I have never forgotten the power of that night… what God gave to you to give to us through your words…that night you talked about Megan and her death. I cried tonight watching the video, seeing her photos as you talked about her.

I wasn’t a parent when I first heard you speak, but since that time, I’ve adopted one son, and birthed another son and a daughter. My oldest son came into the world with extra challenges brought about by “accidents of birth”. He has fetal alcohol syndrome and ADHD, and it has caused a lot of stress and frustration (for him and us). But he is also extremely bright, beautiful, compassionate, kind, giving, and at seven years old, he is one of the best evangelists I know. (He has invited all his neighbor friends to church, and one family now attends regularly because he was persistent enough). My younger son and daughter are so lucky to have him as their older brother. Even though life is “easier” for the two younger ones, they are learning life lessons from him and through his struggles every day, and I’m so blessed to be the mama of all three.

Thank you for sharing about Megan, and especially for doing it on video so I could see and hear you speak about her again. Loved it.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:26:27 +0000

Mike,

Thank you….you certainly bring into focus what’s important. You’ve been through so much yet show a level of faith that one day I aspire to have. God bless you and your family.

Mark

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:27:57 +0000

WOW! Thank you for that- from a mother of three children who don’t quite look as the world would think they should.

By: Sandi

Sandi — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:14:24 +0000

It blessed me to see Megan on these videos again. What a special girl and what remarkable lessons God laid in her life for us all to learn. Thank you for sharing this, Mike.

By: Josh Ross

Josh Ross — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:36:46 +0000

I could listen to you talk about Megan all day long. I’ve heard all of these stories dozens (if not hundreds) of times and they never get old.

By: qb

qb — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:21:45 +0000

Wright again: ”Instead of talking vaguely about heaven and then trying to fit the language of resurrection into that, we should talk with biblical precision about the resurrection and reorganize our language about heaven around that.”

_Surprised by Hope_, p. 148.

By: Keith Brenton

Keith Brenton — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:43:47 +0000

I am so looking forward to finally meeting Megan in heaven and seeing her fulfilled and complete in exactly the way the Father wants her to be.

And I’m not at all sure I will be surprised if it’s exactly the same as the way she was here.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:31:04 +0000

Mike,
As I’ve watched you on these videos, I always thought you looked a little stiff, a bit uncomfortable, not the Mike I know in front of a crowd or around a table with friends. Mind, no one who didn’t know you would notice a thing. You’ve been excellent across the board. But I expect that it’s hard to be yourself in front of a camera, and trying to do it next to Landon, who always looks so at ease!

This clip started the same way. Until you started talking about Megan. And as soon as you started talking about her you looked like yourself again. For the first time, to my eye, you looked like Mike on video.

And it happened when you started talking about Megan.

By: Kelly S.

Kelly S. — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:40:30 +0000

Thank you so much for your words and the awesome pictures and clips of your beautiful daughter. Your words are so, so true….as we are currently living them out daily with our sweet son Bennett, he continues to teach us way more than we could ever teach him. Their lives are TRUE GIFTS and they are instantaneous teachers of what real unconditional love is.

By: Lantz Howard

Lantz Howard — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:14:35 +0000

Thanks for sharing Mike!

This hits home since we are expecting our first child this May…I pray she is as precious as Megan.

By: Adam Gonnerman

Adam Gonnerman — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:49:07 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing that.

By: lc

lc — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:27:06 +0000

This story hits at the core of what we all need to understand. I am one of the many people who followed Megan’s story from a distance. I think there is little doubt that her life will continue to teach for many, many years to come.

By: K. Rex Butts

K. Rex Butts — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:30:40 +0000

Mike,

Thanks for sharing Megan with us once again. What a beautiful girl she is and what a needed lesson she teaches us.

Grace and peace,

Rex