Adoption and Reconciliation–April 2025

My friend Logan and I went to downtown Seattle for some intentional time of outreach on a mid-April Thursday. After lunch, I felt the Lord guiding us to go down near Pudget sound where the ferry boats come in. There is a beautiful spot there where people come and sit on the rocks and reflect on life. I like to call it a good “fishing role” as we “fish for men!”

We had a nice conversation with one gentleman on his lunch break but he had to get back to work. Soon after I noticed a 30ish year old guy with a few tattoos sitting nearby us. I have found that tattoos are a great conversation starter as people get them for a reason and are usually very wiling to share. So, I commented on his tattoos and He was more than willing to share about them. As we listened to him share, we learned that one of his tattoos had to do with his home nation where he was born and adopted from. “C” as we will call him, went on to share passionately about how the world was messed up and how he desired to see the world changed. I asked him what he thought the solution was to the world’s problems? He commented on how selfish the super rich were and eventually, that led to me sharing about how we are all selfish by nature. I told him that I may not be so generous if I were that rich either, and that we all need changed hearts.

“C” went on to share about the places he’d lived, including the party lifestyle. I asked him more about each place and what he liked about them. Then I shared about I used to be a partier for a short time but that I had met Jesus on my 21st birthday and how he had transformed my desires and my life. At this, he shared how he had been re-baptized last year and how he was trying to walk out his faith. After he shared more about his faith, I asked Him who the Holy Spirit was to him. He gave a pretty decent answer, as he had just watched something recently on TV about the Trinity. I shared more about the Holy Spirit and eventually, Logan and I prayed the Holy Spirit would fill “C” so he could be a witness. We also prayed for God to work on all three of us to transform any area of our lives that still needed work.

After this prayer, “C” began sharing more about his family situation as he had a desire to reconcile with his parents. We talked him through this process and eventually were able to pray with him into this reconciliation. He began making plans to send cards over the upcoming Mother’s/Father’s Day holidays. It was amazing to see the Holy Spirit work so quickly on his heart!

As we wrapped up our conversation with “C” (which probably lasted around 30 minutes), we told him that the Lord had guided us to come down to this very area and clearly had that conversation planned. “C” was very thankful for both of us and gave us hugs. Let’s continue to lift up “C” to the Lord. He hasn’t had an easy life, yet we pray God gives him the “Spirit of wisdom and revelation so (he) can know him better” as it says in Ephesians 1:17. God is our perfect, loving Heavenly Father and adopted us into His family through Christ! We pray that “C” understands this very deeply, so that he can love his parents intentionally and be reconciled to them!