My eyes slowly peeled open as my alarm started ringing… oye. “Ok, don’t look at your phone, start by listening….start by praying…” I did it, but I’ll be honest, it wasn’t magical. And this made me sad and also worried. I began the year with a word in mind. “Listen.” I would get up in the morning and immediately focus on my word, praying through it, practicing it and the results were astounding. I was more in tune with those around me, myself and my God. It was so thril

My journey in creating the Good Word Collection has been a personal one. I began this “experiment” after finding some flash cards that someone had given me to use for my art. They had words on them that I connected with: “believe,” “smile,” “wish” and I wanted to bring them to life by pairing them with images and color that would set them apart from the chatter of all the other words we hear in our heads and around us. I did this mainly for myself, but realized that these