(Advent Week 3) Luke 1:26-38   Mary's Call   When you get right down to the brass tacks, the Gospel is simply the greatest love story ever told.  One of the greatest joys of this time of the year is that Christmas reminds of this fact in a beautiful and dramatic way.  When we stare with wide eyed wonder into the stable in Bethlehem, it becomes clear that God is not some stern judge waiting to condemn us, God is not some far off deity who neither knows nor cares what is happening in our lives, but God is a God of infinite love, who always and forever seeks to share this wondrous love with us, His children.