So here we are, and today I want to invite you into our Christmas scavenger hunt. If you want to be a Christian these days, you must go on scavenger hunts and work to recover the lasting things buried under so much stuff.  For behind the inflatable lawn ornaments and the three billion dollars of stuff we gift for Christmas, are the three wise men and their original Christmas gifts.  These gifts are not things we take out of the attic once a year to decorate and put away for the year. These gifts reveal the heart of Christmas, that just as Jesus found himself by giving himself as gift to humankind, so too can we find our deepest selves, not by what we get, but by giving ourselves away.