in the night visions

Reading through Daniel is sometimes a shock experiment. Because the book is so well-known for the vegetable-eating, and the fire-dancing, and the lion-taming, and the wall-reading, that by the time you get to ch7, you forget how it ends. But excerpts from ch7 beyond could be mistaken for Rev or Ezek or Jer. You forget about the vision of the throne and the endtimes descriptions and the years between A and B.

But isn't that like us when thinking about all lives of faith? Boil them down into snappy good stories, and forget about the more tedious parts that are every bit the key aspects of faith? Your life to God isn't just the handful of times you acted in obedience and were rewarded. Your life is all of the others as well.