“Then Mary said, ‘Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.’ And the angel departed from her.” Luke 1:38   The real hero of the Christmas story is Mary. An angel showed up and told her, “Mary, you are greatly and highly favored by the Lord.” In America, we have a concept of what favor means. We think favor means that you live in a big house and have a nice car. But Mary was called “highly favored,” and she had nothing. She didn’t have a home or anythin...