Today's Everyday Hero

This tiny girl's "real" mom will be out of jail on parole on Monday. The man pictured has enough kindness to bring a baby that's not his into his home and love her as if she were his own, knowing she may move on tomorrow. He is an ordinary car mechanic; grease is permanently embedded in his fingers. The one nail is black from an injury, and he was wearing a hat to hide a shaggy hairdo. He held that foster baby with a tenderness that belied his callouses and a prayer that one day she will be his. And in that moment he became a hero.