Bryan is a good friend of our church and has nothing to do with adoption except that he was able to reach my son.

Bryan is a Christian musician who has played at our church many times, as well as different venues across the country. Bryan has a song called “The Cold Shower Treatment” that has touched my son very deeply. The song is about a boy named Cory who gets in trouble often and hear the familiar refrain, “Why did you do it?” He then goes to a church camp where the Pastor/Camp Counselor hears Cory’s prayers and frustrations at night when he thinks no one else is listening, then works with him and gives him a life changing wake up call.

My son relates to this song because his behavior is less than desirable, and a few years ago he began to realize it. Whether or not he can or wants to make changes is up for debate, but he tears up when he hears this song. My son has not made any life altering changes, but this song still touches him.

There was a time when Bryan performed a concert at another church. After his performance I was able to tell him how much that song touched my son. He was awed when I gave him my son’s history and how much he related to this song. As I mentioned, Bryan travels across the country and meets thousands of people, but he remains in contact with my son. Whenever I see Bryan, he asks how my son is doing.

“The Cold Shower Treatment” describes many of our children who struggle with issues like conduct disorder, attachment disorder, ADHD, or other behavioral and learning disabilities. They are kids with negative behaviors who sometimes don’t know why they behave the way they do, or other times know why they have the behaviors they do but feel powerless to change them.

My daughter joined our family just about two years ago and she loves Bryan’s music. He has two CDs that are specifically geared toward kids. “Bugs for Lunch” teaches them about New Testament stories and “Worms in the Bread” teaches them Old Testament stories. They are fun songs that get the children interested in learning bible stories. Kids as young as 4 or 5 will sing along to these songs. They may not understand the bible story immediately, but they sure do like the “Yuck, Yuck, Yuck” portion of “Worms in the Bread.” You may listen to samples of the songs here.

Enjoy Bryan’s music and know that he is a friend of adoptive parents.


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