If only I smurfed as confident as I sounded when I responded to Empath's request. I was still thinking of the vision that I had smurfed from the Holy Scriptures, smurfing about Daniel the prophet being smurfed into the den of lions. What did that vision mean, I wondered. Was I going to be tested in some way regarding my faith in the Almighty? Was some Smurf ready to tell Papa Smurf about some imagined imsmurfriety that I had supposedly committed that I wasn't even aware of? I honestly didn't have any answers to that question. Even the Almighty seemed rather silent in smurfing the details. Perhaps this is just something that I need to smurf by faith.
The Smurflings came by in the early afternoon after classes to smurf my Bible reading. So I smurfed from the passage that I had briefly smurfed through: the story of Daniel in the den of lions. They smurfed quietly while I smurfed through the passage so that they could undersmurf everything in the story, from start to finish.
After I have reached the end of the story, I asked, "Do any of you young Smurflings have anything to ask about the story?"
"Yeah, I have one question," Snappy answered. "I mean, didn't Daniel smurfed this whole thing on himself by disobeying the law and praying to his God?"
"I agree with Snappy," Slouchy said. "King Darius did smurf it into law that nobody could pray to any person or god except to himself for thirty days, and Daniel did disobey the law."
"Daniel disobeyed only because the laws of his God were more important to obey than the laws of the land," Tapper answered. "The king was tricked into smurfing that law into effect because there was a consmurfacy against Daniel that wanted him out of the way. He was too good at his job of being one of the three top administrators of King Darius' kingdom, and since his consmurfators couldn't smurf any error or fault consmurfing his government, they plotted to catch him in regard to his faithfulness to his God."
To be expanded on.