It’s tough to describe, but there is something about fear that makes us feel alive. The adrenaline is pumping. Your reflexes are catlike. And time stands still. Benaiah must have been scared spitless when he was chasing the lion. But he was never more alive. And it was the fear he felt that made his “in a pit with a lion on a snowy day” story all the more fun to tell ex post facto. The scariest experiences make the best stories, don’t they?
