HopeWords Literary Journal
The HopeWords Literary Journal exists for writers, artists, and readers who long for hope and heaven and who look for timeless stories from diverse voices that all point back to the good, true, and beautiful. The HopeWords Literary Journal is not clickbait, it's not artificial, it's not breaking news. It's a community of writers, painters, preachers, thinkers, musicians, photographers, cartoonists, and storytellers who foster colorful conversations that are rooted in humble hospitality.
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Poetry of Hope by Eugene C. Scott
Hope, like love and grace, is a word that’s easy to cliché. And difficult to define. Maybe because those four letters arranged as such spell more than a dictionary can contain…
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Fall Has It’s Way of Holding Us While Helping Us To Let Go
I can hear through younger ears the way my mom’s voice moved through a room when she called me by another name: Jayboy. Inside of that sound was the knowledge that I was who I was, in the right place, at the right time…
The Katydids’ Song
The enchanting katydids sing in the shadows of the trees, signaling the close of a warm August day. It is only 8:30 in the evening, but the katydids begin their chorus as a prelude to the darkness encapsulating the holler…
The Lore Wielder
“THE LURE IS GETTING STRONGER,” she whispered into the dark as she stared at the black water breaking on the rocks below them…
Losing Battles
My dad always loved the Hollywood gunslingers, namely Charley Waite from Open Range (played by Kevin Costner), Wyatt Earp in Tombstone (Kurt Russell with a mustache), and Clint Eastwood as Clint Eastwood…
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