daniel: i have always been pretty religious but not the way i was supose to. around that same time i was reading the bible and the book of daniel has always been my favorite book.but around this time i got a whole new meanin out of it..i think i am daniel.

Hello once more daniel. Your story has been on my mind since I first read it a few days ago. I'm guessing that if it was important enough to you to share, it's probably important enough for you to come back and check to see if anyone else has commented on it.

In my own experience I often found myself self-identifying with specific themes and images too. Specific poems, prose and music became very important to me and I read or listened to them over and over again. In hindsight, I can see that they were expressing a part of my experience that I couldn't give voice to. It occurred to me that the same might be happening for you so I went searching for something on the net that could possibly touch that place and found this...

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"... it's unlikely that I personally will ever end up in a lion pit," you might say. But, indeed, God's people today perhaps are in a lion pit. This pit represents the exile, confinement, and isolation of God's people. It is the place where we feel "cut off" from friends, family, and neighbors and from God and the joy of God's values and lifestyle.

Note the skull in the bottom center of this detail image (above) and the other human bones included in the painting. Daniel is in grave, imminent danger. He has remained alive thanks only to God's protective presence (Daniel 6:22). Daniel is in a grave, a pit, a place of skulls and bones. Above Daniel's head, a stone covering the pit has just been rolled away.

Such a pit is symbolic of exile of being "cut off" from life and community. Distraught at Jerusalem's destruction, Lamentations 3:53 cries, "They have silenced me in the pit. And have placed a stone on me." Verse 55 continues, "I called on your name, O Lord, Out of the lowest pit."

Source: Daniel in the Lion's Den


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Having some insight into this myth/story provides me with a possible means of connection with your own experience. 'Perhaps,' I am thinking to myself, 'Daniel is telling those who can hear what he has to say, that he feels isolated, cut off, terribly alone and in need of a bit of faith that he will get through this personal test.'

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