Today is Epiphany. A season of the church that calls us to hear the story of a group of magi - astrologers - who are asked by a fearful king Herod to find this supposed new king so that he too can worship the child. It has bugged me for years that when we tell this story through the voices of little children, dressed and carrying boxes wrapped in shiny paper, that we miss the danger. We miss that what Herod really wants is not to worship the child, but to murder him. He uses the Magi in an effort to find the child. When we only talk about the sharing of the three gifts, we miss the reality that masses of children are about to die because the leader of the country doesn’t want to lose his position.