Without knowing why, fifteen year old Kara was drawn to Holy Rosary’s Adoration chapel. At the time she didn’t know what Adoration was, nor did she understand that the Eucharist on display was God Himself meeting her face-to-face. She just knew to walk twenty minutes on cold winter nights to that space where something just felt different. It wasn’t until a retreat her junior year of high school that she came to grow deeper in friendship with Jesus and take ownership of her faith. On that retreat and subsequent retreats, she really grew in understanding that that little piece of Bread is Jesus, and all He wants is a loving relationship with all of His children— including her. This was a pivotal turning point, but Kara still struggled with placing her worth in what other people thought or how she was performing in tennis or at school. Over time, the Lord really helped shift her focus more and more on Him and helped her to realize that she’s a beloved daughter of Christ before anything else. This theme of finding one’s identity in Christ can be seen throughout The Clutter as well as discerning one’s vocation, detaching from disordered desires, and finding healing through forgiveness.