None of us will be thrust into a cage with a hungry lion like Daniel but we can all absorb the major lesson of this reading. Have faith that God will be with you if you take a risk for moral reasons. That’s hard. We say we believe but it’s far easier to avoid risks and get along to go along.
No matter when and how the world ends, we all sooner or later face a personal end in which we will have to account to our creator for how we have spent our lives. Have we lived in faith, which is to say generously, or have we allowed fear of our personal “lions” to keep us from living as we should?