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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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…

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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Poetry of Hope

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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Bird Cathedral

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Sewing Us Back Together: Emotions, Entertainment, and Resurrection on the Late ‘The Late Show’

As someone who, shall we say, struggles to feel things, I’m never expecting tears. I usually only get to the place of even naming emotions long after they’ve passed through my system. To call it stoicism would vastly overestimate any intentionality in holding passions at bay.