Christmas Gets Real in a Hurry

Christmas gets real in a hurry. In your with this text where what sounds like, you know, joy celebration, nothing but goodness is quickly revealed to deeply troubling to a world run by folks like Herod. I think one thing we can say about this is Herod understands the Christmas story better than most people in the narrative. As do the Magi will get back to them, though, at Epiphany,. They might kind of be boneheads. But nevertheless, they do the right thing and they respond to God in the right way. It's astounding whether or not they are best of the best or the the goofballest of the goofballs.