Hi Lovelies,
As we step into 2026, I feel led to invite you into something gentleā¦ something holyā¦ something unexpected. REST. The kind of rest that rebuilds you. Before the year has even taken its first breath, we live in a world that greets every new year with noise: new me, new goals, new pressure, new timelines, new expectations.
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, I noticed something that stayed with me. My screen was filled with talk of vibration numbers, timelines, predictions, and tarot readings, people anxiously searching for what 2026 would bring, trying to decode the year before it even began.
I watched how worry crept in early and how pressure showed up before January arrived. And I thought to myself:
What if we didnāt enter the year afraid of missing something?
What if we didnāt rush to define the year before it had a chance to unfold?
In December, while studying the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth, the parents of John the Baptist. God opened my eyes in a way Iāve never seen before. I saw them not just as biblical characters, but as mirrors.
Zechariahā¦ A priest, faithful, busy, always showing up for duty, always moving, always ready to serve. And yet, the unanswered prayers he carried for years had quietly become part of his identity. Not because he didnāt believe God could moveā¦but because the situation had lasted so long that he couldnāt see himself outside the problem anymore.
And I realised how easily this happens to us too, when a season stretches longer than we expected, we begin to identify ourselves by our struggles.
āIām the one still waiting.ā āIām the one who hasnāt broken through yet.ā āIām the one with the long-standing issue.ā
We stop having a problem and start being the problem. And when that happens, it becomes easy to understand why so many people rush for answers before a year even begins. When delay has shaped your identity, silence feels unsafe and waiting feels unbearable.
So we look for predictions, search for timelines, listen to tarot readings, vibration numbers, and forecasts. Hoping someone else will name the year for us, define the outcome for us, and tell us when the waiting will finally end.
Out of exhaustion and out of fear of another year like the last.
But Elizabeth was different; she waited too, carrying the same unanswered prayer. Yet she was not consumed; she lived in quietness, not resignation, but trust. And it was in that quiet space that God moved.
As 2026 begins, I want to invite you to do something countercultural, resist the urge to define the year before youāve lived it, the pressure to chase certainty before peace, and flee from the voices that insist you must know everything before you take your next step. You are allowed to enter 2026 without predictions, without timelines or labels shaped by past delays. You are not the sum of what hasnāt happened yet.
Like Elizabeth, you can choose quietness, not as avoidance, but as trust. You can allow this year to unfold gently, day by day, without forcing meaning or rushing outcomes. Let this be a year where you rest enough to hear clearly.
You do not need to know everything to move forward.
You only need enough peace to stay present.
I pray that 2026 will meet you softer than you expect and may you discover that rest is not the opposite of growth.
With all my love,
TEMI OLU (YOUR FAV ONLINE GIRL)