Uncommon Love

05/06/2026

THIS, y’all!!! I LOVE THIS on SO many levels!!!!!✝️✝️✝️🧬🧬🧬


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04/23/2026

When you struggle to experience peace....

Remember: Peace isn't something we strive for. It's what descends upon us (and fills us) when we fully trust God

RE: Shalom

Shalom is the understanding that everything is as it should be (right now).

Wholeness and Completeness: Shalom indicates a state where everything is as it should be, encompassing safety, tranquility, and harmony.

More Than Peace: While commonly translated as "peace," it implies a "perfect peace" or "overflowing inner serenity."

Biblical Foundation: In scripture, it represents a state of full, perfect communion with the creator, intended for humanity.

A Blessing of Well-being: It is used as both a hello and goodbye, literally wishing someone health, prosperity, and fullness.

Relationship and Justice: It represents not just individual peace, but healthy, just, and reconciled relationships among people and nations.

04/22/2026

Have you ever considered that God loves you no matter what you do?

Have you also considered that He also NEVER supports, encourages, or celebrates our mistakes? (The Bible calls them sins.)

His Words tells us, along with the woman caught in adultery, to “go and sin no more.”

Ephesians 4:26 says "Be angry and do not sin."

Romans 6:12 tells us,"Do not let sin control the way you live."

1 John 3:6 takes it to an entirely deeper level: "No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him." (That’s a whole discussion in itself…)

And yet it also tells us that NOTHING can separate us from His love.

N O T H I N G.

These two truths form (and inform) God’s acceptance without approval.

His acceptance is His love for us—love that holds fast to Truth, sets healthy boundaries, and does the hard thing when it would be so much less painful to do the easy thing.

I encourage you today to take your situation and circumstances before God. Ask Him to make clear to you how to live out acceptance without approval—compassion without compromise—with your loved ones.

If you have questions or need support, reach out to us. We are here for you.

Uncommon Love Ministries❤️

04/21/2026

When I started this ministry almost ten years ago there weren’t many ministries like it—specifically tailored for parents of those who identify as anything but straight.

That’s not true today.

If we are not your “cup of tea,” reach out. There are other good, solid, Bible-based ministries we can refer you to.

Ministry isn’t about competition. Our goal is to make sure no parent ever has to go through this alone.

God sees your heartache.
He knows every detail.
His heart hurts with yours.
He has plans and purposes—even in this.
And they are always for good.

He is with you and your child.

He’s got you.
He’s got them.
He’s got this!

No HoPe in Him is ever wasted.

04/19/2026

Do you feel alone in this struggle?

Isolated?

Fearful of what others would say—or how they might judge you?

Ashamed? Embarrassed?

Feeling hopeless?

Don’t know what to do or how to respond?

We have a private group just for you. No one will know you’re in it or see your interactions. This group is by invitation or request only for the safety and anonymity of our community.

Contact us at [email protected] or via our website at uncommonlove.online to learn more or to request membership.

***Uncommon Love Ministries exists to support, encourage, and equip parents and family with LGBTQ-identifying loved ones. Our standard is to LOVE LIKE JESUS, with sincere compassion but without compromising God’s Word, Will, or Ways, honoring Him in all we think, do, say, and consider.***

Let us know how we can support you.

What sets us apart is that we strive to love our kids with the Uncommon Love of Jesus–with compassion for their struggles and wounds, yet without compromising the Truth of God’s Word.

04/07/2026

Estrangement has become the new remedy for discomfort. Oh sure, sometimes estrangement is necessary--like when there is physical, emotional, or mental abuse; "abuse" being the operative word.

The problem is, we have culturally redefined "abuse" to mean "anything that causes me discomfort."

That's not abuse. That's, well, discomfort. And discomfort is a natural part of relationships. You will never agree fully with another living soul on every topic. If you do, somebody isn't being honest.

[Note: If the same person's opinion is always spoken and the other person is always stuffing their opinion or silencing their own voice, that is not a relationship; it's dysfunction.]

The same goes for the word "toxic." Toxic is poison. Toxic makes you physically or mentally ill. Again, discomfort or disagreement is not "toxic." Toxins are meant to be avoided at all costs. Discomfort and disagreement are simply part of of being human; it's in the friction of disagreement that we learn and grow and develop into better people.

When did we forget how to disagree with each other?

The first duty of love is to listen. Listening implies being respectful. Listening says, "Because I love you, I want to hear what's important to you." It doesn't mean I will agree with you, but again, we NEED people in our lives who don't always agree with us.

The second duty of love is to forgive. Forgiveness means there is hurt, offense, or brokenness. Disagreeing with someone may hurt; one or both parties might be offended; and the relationship may be broken as a result. But forgiveness is the remedy, not estrangement.

People we don't love really can't hurt us--except in criminal ways--right? So if someone we love and who loves us hurts us, that hurt must be mended or healed. You don't amputate your arm simply because it is broken. You set the bone, put it in a cast or splint, and give it time to rest and heal. Again--respect. You respect that the broken bone needs tending to and you give it what it needs. Yes, it's painful, but again, pain is a very real part of life.

This is how relationships work.

Which leads to the third thing that is required of love: that is, repair. That broken arm has very specific needs in order to heal. Only a fool keeps hitting a wall with his broken arm.

Only a fool amputates his arm simply because it's broken.

Estrangement is not the answer. Talking, listening, forgiving, respecting one another's differences and healing--that is the answer. The only cure for relationship dissonance is a combination of love and respect. Agreement is optional.

03/02/2026

Renewal in Seasons of Waiting - https://mailchi.mp/556feb24721a/important-changes-to-uncommon-love-8346947

02/21/2026

uncommon: out of the ordinary, unusual; remarkable

That’s what the uncommon love of Jesus is.

Out of the ordinary.

Unusual.

Remarkable.

It’s not the status quo.

It’s the exception instead of the rule.

It IS exceptional.

It’s not based in emotion. It’s based in commitment, loyalty, and Truth.

We may not always “feel” loving.

We may feel deeply hurt, bewildered, anxious, even angry.

But Uncommon Love steps up, hangs in, goes the distance even when others have called the “race for rain.”

We keep going.

We keep praying.

We keep standing in the gap.

We keep standing confidently in His Word with His strength, for His glory.

We. Keep. Loving with the Love of Christ coursing through us.

Because the only good and perfect conclusion of every dilemma, distraction, or diversion from His Way is His Love.

This is Uncommon Love.❤️✝️

02/10/2026

Differentiation: differentiation of self refers to the ability to distinguish intellectual processes from feeling processes.

Differentiation on the intrapersonal level involves the ability to experience both intimacy with others and autonomy from others.

People with a poorly differentiated “self” depend so heavily on the acceptance and approval of others that they either quickly adjust what they think, say, and do to please others or they dogmatically proclaim what others should be like and pressure them to conform.

In order to respond in a healthy way, we need to be aware of unhealthy beliefs or behaviors (in ourselves and in others).

When we become aware we can learn to heal (our own unhealthy beliefs) and to respond in a healthier manner, one that Is more conducive to connection rather than division.

Simply put:

Know what differentiation is.

Learn to recognize it when you see it (awareness).

Respond with compassionate understanding—not offense, not codependency, not compliance. Respond with confidence in who God created you to be and Love Like Jesus.

Getting to that place is a process. We are here to help.

02/06/2026

Our new NEWSLETTER dropped this morning! Check it out below. And if you haven't subscribed, now is the perfect time to do so! -https://mailchi.mp/66a320542bb8/important-changes-to-uncommon-love-8346682