Recently, a family with which I and several of my co-workers are familiar experienced the suicide of one of their members.  The family is Jewish.  I immediately commenced prayer for the soul of the deceased.  Hopefully by some extraordinary means this soul ended up receiving salvation at the very end, but I digress.

My co-workers are all protestant, and it disheartened me when one of them said, “well, we couldn’t save him, but maybe we can save his mom and dad.”

First of all, this individual is not under any illusion that we can save anybody; rather they simply meant that we had not effectively evangelized the child, but perhaps we can evangelize his parents successfully.   Had I not been busy, I probably would have gotten into a deep conversation about whether God breaks His covenants…y’know, that whole “God’s Chosen People” thing…but I refrained.