“Courage, Dear Heart”: Discern And Then Do, by Clarrie Dwyer

I’d prayed.

Thought.

Asked for advice.

Researched.

Considered.

Reconsidered.

My anxieties and misgivings (you can’t do this; you’ll fail and everyone will see you fail; this will take too much time away from your family) pushed against the growing sense that this was still something I had to do.

I was filled with anticipation, sometimes joyful excitement, always fear.

Launching a course and starting a membership for Catholic writers wasn’t something a year before—really, even six months before—I could have seen myself doing. The idea had come gently but sort of out of the blue, and expanded to fill a big enough part of my heart that it simply couldn’t be ignored. …

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