Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled Baby Boy was written by Tim Gustafson.

For more than a year, his legal name was Baby Boy.

Discovered by a security guard who heard his cries, baby boy had been

abandoned, hours old and wrapped only in a bag in a hospital parking lot. Soon after his discovery,

social services called the people who would one day become his forever family. The couple took him in and called him Grayson.

Finally, the adoption was complete and Grayson's name became official.

Today, you can meet a delightful child who mispronounces his ours as he earnestly engages

you in conversation.

You'd never guess he'd once been found, abandoned in a bag.

Late in his life, Moses reviewed God's character and what he'd done for the people of Israel.

The Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, Moses told them in Deuteronomy chapter 10. This love had a broad scope.

He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you,

giving them food and clothing, Moses said. He is the one you praise.

He is your God.

Whether it's through adoption or simply through love and service, we're all called to reflect

God's love.

That loving couple became the hands and feet God used to extend his love to someone who might have gone unnoticed and

unclaimed.

We can serve as his hands and feet, too.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Deuteronomy chapter 10, verses 14 through 22.

To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth, and everything in it.

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