Earlier this evening when we were talking about Christians being forced to fight against Christians (eg: in the Roman Empire with the gladiators), Jadon said, "I would just let them kill me." We went on to hear the rest of the story of Saint Telemachus (as told by "Adventures in Odyssey's" Mr. Whittaker as he quotes "Foxe's Book of Martyrs") who gave his life trying to stop the senseless bloodshed in the Colosseum. His martyrdom was reported to cause Caesar to ban the gladiator games altogether. Jadon seemed saddened by the story.
Interestingly, he was even willing to forgo hearing a joke (an occasional bedtime treat he'd earned by getting quickly to bed after hockey) in order that we could look up more about Telemachus before I read the Bible for him.
We certainly want Jadon to live with God's Kingdom in the highest & frontmost part of his mind, even as expressed by the late martyred missionary Jim Elliott: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
