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2. When did you recognize you either caused someone to become a member of this club, or were a member?

I have a multi-card puncher myself. A sibling and several children who are in some way wrestling with God and the faith or have walked away. I also have family stories of people who wandered far but returned or who never left but seemed to wander. So I have hope. God is more patient with their and my fuller conversion of heart than I am.

I became a member of this club around the end of 2020. The "straying soul" in the case of my family is quite similar to that of Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited, although of the opposite sex.

I think this quotation from Chesterton ("The Queer Feet," in The Innocence of Father Brown), which plays an important role in Evelyn Waugh's novel, is quite to the point for people in this club:

[God] catches us with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let [us] wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring [us] back with a twitch upon the thread.

Manuel wrote: "I became a member of this club around the end of 2020. The "straying soul" in the case of my family is quite similar to that of Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited, although of the opp..."
Love this quote you gave, thank you.