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The lessons one dad learned from his precious little girl

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Actions Speak Louder than Words Mike Cope shares the lessons he learned from his mentally disabled daughter. Mike Cope’s best teacher was his mentally disabled daughter—Megan. In her ten years of life, she taught her father secrets more profound than anything he’d learned in college or seminary. In his moving remembrance, Megan’s Secrets: What My Mentally Disabled Daughter Taught Me about Life , Cope shares those secrets in a way that will make readers laugh, cry and find new hope. Megan was a beautiful pint-sized girl whose only spoken words were “I’m Megan!” Although a child of few words, the best scholars in the world could not teach what she did in her brief life. Her life exposed some of the insanities of the world and revealed some life-giving secrets such as: • We are often fascinated with things that are impressive from the outside but which may not be that important to God. • What really matters has to do with the heart: keeping promises, seeking justice in a brutal wo...