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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Free Read of the Month!

Bird Cathedral by Emily Charlotte.

I can’t sleep tonight because the mourning doves are crying out and I know that, across the room, you are watching me. The birds in daddy’s aviary never keep me awake this late…

Needing You Yet Again

Lord, would you make a way through this slump phase of life;

bring us to a clearing where we can catch our breath and see,

Hector Betance 7/12/26 Hector Betance 7/12/26

The Gifted Time

The gifted time of morning light,

White water birds yet gray their flight,

The holy spears through ancient trees…

Graci Lowe 7/12/26 Graci Lowe 7/12/26

Hope In Him

This is a song called “Hope In Him.” Using the words of the Persian king in Daniel confessing praise to the One True God, I wrote a song about the joy of Christ incarnate— and the fantastic hope He brings.