plot? The thought must have occurred to him: “Should I risk losing my life as well as my position in the government? If tomorrow I am mangled by lions, I won’t be able to help the Jewish exiles any longer.” What choices did Daniel actually have? To pray to God through Darius? Unthinkable! To stop praying for a month? Just as unthinkable! Could he perhaps pray in secret instead of in front of an open window facing Jerusalem, as was his custom? After all, God hasn’t commanded that his children kneel