Holy Week 2026

For those reading this, before I dive in, I just want to wish you a meaningful start to Holy Week. Happy Palm Sunday. I’m praying this week is good for you and that God meets you in the way you’ve been hoping and praying for. Lean in, listen closely, and come with an open, expectant heart.

Last year, in 2025, I remember sitting during Holy Week and feeling a tangible presence of God. I’ve only experienced that a few times in my life. A couple that stand out were right before the COVID shutdown and even once at a gas station in high school. But this time felt different. My soul felt softened, my heart felt expectant, and I felt comfort in the middle of so much chaos.

At the time, my friend Taylor was in the middle of his battle with cancer. Things were getting harder with his health, and I was facing some personal battles of my own. Yet during Holy Week, I felt God more than I had in a long time. I know when people say they “feel God,” it can be hard to understand. It’s not easy to explain. The best way I can describe it is a supernatural peace. Something you know isn’t coming from yourself. Something deeper than anything this world has to offer.

That’s what it was for me. A supernatural peace, but also a supernatural strength to keep praying through the hard and to keep praying for Taylor in the middle of his fight. I had this deep faith that no matter what, God was in the story and He was going to move in both my life and Taylor’s life that week.

For anyone unfamiliar, Holy Week is the week where some of the most important events in the Christian faith took place:

Palm Sunday – Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey as people shout “Hosanna”
Monday – Jesus cleanses the temple
Tuesday – Jesus teaches in the temple
Wednesday – Judas betrays Jesus
Thursday – The Last Supper and Jesus’ arrest
Friday – Jesus is crucified on the cross
Saturday – Jesus is laid in the tomb
Sunday – Jesus rises from the dead and defeats death

During Holy Week in 2025, I truly believed that if there was ever a week to expect God to move, this was it. That He would show up in ways we couldn’t imagine.

Looking back now at Taylor’s battle with cancer, I still believe he won. God didn’t let Taylor lose that fight. That was something I prayed for constantly during that week. I’ll admit, I was praying for big, undeniable healing. For his cancer to completely disappear. For a miracle that would leave people in awe.

At the time, I didn’t fully see it. But looking back, God did exactly that, just not in the way I expected. He used Taylor’s story to reach people all across Tennessee and even beyond. He answered those prayers through a thousand small miracles along the way.

With Taylor’s diagnosis of sarcoma of the heart, he wasn’t expected to live long, but he did. God gave him time to share his testimony and impact people. That was one of the biggest miracles I didn’t recognize in the moment. It also gave me time to grow in my friendship with him, something I wouldn’t have had if his story followed the doctors’ timeline.

In a lot of ways, I think that’s similar to Holy Week when Jesus was here on Earth. People prayed on that Friday for a different outcome and felt hopeless. The hope of the world seemed gone, laid in darkness. In the same way, I didn’t see it in the moment with Taylor. But God did. He had a plan all along. Jesus chose to go to the cross to take our place and make us whole and free. That truth still blows my mind. I’m thankful He did.

In a lot of ways, this is a reminder for you too. This Holy Week in 2026, trust God. He knows what He’s doing in your life. He knows the end of your story. He’s orchestrating your path, and He knows you personally. It may look like a million small, unnoticed moments along the way, but He is present in all of it.

Take time to look back. When you do, you might start to see it more clearly. You were never walking alone. God has been with you the whole time.

If you’re in a season right now where things don’t make sense, where your prayers feel unanswered, or where the story isn’t going how you hoped… don’t lose trust.

Friday didn’t look like victory.
Saturday felt like silence.
But Sunday changed EVERYTHING.

And the same God who was working then is still working in your story now.