Finding Faith: The spirit in other people's joy

Finding Faith: The spirit in other people's joy

The other night I was leaving work, just as the evening sun was taking its turn downward. Another 12-hour day at the emergency shelter, a typical schedule these past 10 months as we’ve worked to turn things around. I was pulling out of our parking lot and, out of the corner of my eye, I saw one of our emergency shelter guests gesticulating wildly out my driver’s side window. But not in a menacing way. Rather, you could see their broad smile as t…

On Faith and Values: Dreaming— and ‘Lightening Up’

📝Tom Allen previously wrote a "Faith and Values" column for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He is the editor of the Virginia Journal of Education and the author of two books, "Grace Happens" and "Roll With It."I met an elderly fellow recently who told me of a dream he’d had as a younger man and its impact it’s in his life. He’s affable and grounded, the kind of guy I’d like to be when I’m his age, and he began by telling me he’d grown up in a chur…