"My parents wish I was never born—I see the regret in their eyes."
How it sounds in your head: When they look at you, there's something behind their eyes that wasn't there in baby photos. They love you, maybe, but they also wonder what life would've been like without you. That's the secret no one says out loud.
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."
-- Jeremiah 29:11Enemy interpreting parental exhaustion/disappointment as rejection of the child's existence.
You've heard the fights about money, seen mom cry about missed opportunities, watched dad work two jobs. The stress lines on their faces appeared around the same time you did. Correlation feels like causation when you're the variable that changed everything.
His mother hid him three months then PUT HIM IN A RIVER to die because keeping him meant death for the whole family. Abandoned in a basket, given away to Pharaoh's daughter—yet God used that very rejection to position him in the palace to deliver millions.
I REFUSE the lie that my parents' struggles mean I shouldn't exist. IT IS WRITTEN God's thoughts toward me are peace and hope, not regret—His plan overrides human second-guessing. I am not defined by exhausted glances or financial stress but by the Father who planned me before creation. IT IS WRITTEN I am blessed coming in and going out, blessed in the city and field—the BARAK covers me regardless of how my arrival felt to others. The thief on the cross had zero family support, yet Jesus said 'TODAY you'll be with Me'—acceptance isn't earned through parental approval. I stand in grace, not human emotion.
While you're interpreting tired eyes as regret, the Father is interpreting your existence as victory. He's not waiting for your parents to validate you—He's already thrown the party, killed the calf, placed the ring. Their struggle is real; His delight is realer.