Embracing Brokenness Ministries

In Part 2 of our Reclamation series, Steve and Colleen Adams explore what it looks like to reclaim the parts of our story that were shaped by failure, shame, and consequences.In this deeply personal episode, Steve shares the part of his story he rarely tells publicly — the collapse of a successful real estate business in the 1980s, federal fraud charges, and the prison sentence that followed.For years, the weight of that chapter lingered quietly in the background of his life.Then, decades later, God prompted him to do something unexpected.Go back.Together, Steve and Colleen returned to the federal prison camp where he served his sentence — not as an inmate this time, but as a man who had experienced redemption.What happened there became a powerful moment of reclamation — a reconciling of past, present, and purpose.This conversation explores:How God redeems even the most painful chapters of our storyThe difference between shame and redemptionWhy consequences can become part of God’s restoration processHow woun