“For your name’s sake, O Lord, do not deliver us up forever, or make void your covenant. Do not take away your mercy from us, for the sake of Abraham, your beloved, Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one, To whom you promised to multiply their offspring like the stars of heaven, or the sand on the shore of the sea.
(Dan 3:25,35-36)

The image of the three youths in the fiery furnace captures the imagination. But even more, the prayer that one of them offers in the midst of the flames: “for the sake of Abraham, Isaac & Israel (Jacob). As my grandmother used to say, “Sometimes God just needs reminding!”