If you talk about the blind and guides you are talking about seeing-eye dogs. If you discuss Alpine mountains and climbing, you must think of a Swiss guide. If you are ignorant and in college, your guide is a professor. So it is with foreign lands and tour guides, taxes and tax consultants. But what of Christmas? I think many of us feel that Christmas is so easy to find that we don't need a guide. Yet, let me remind you that there were few that found their way to the first nativity. In fact, most missed it. And even today there are thousands who never find their way through all the glitter and "holidaze" to the Christ of Christmas.

God knows we are apt to get lost in our quest for the manger child, hence he has sent us a guide, our guide to Christmas. His name? John. John the Baptizer! In…