Meet Kara
Kara was born and raised in Saint Marys, Ohio. She’s the youngest of three girls and was blessed to become an aunt. After graduating high school, Kara went on to earn a bachelors degree from Wright State Lake Campus majoring in Organizational Leadership and minoring in Psychology. During this time Kara began to get involved with and volunteer for a local Catholic young adult group. This group helped her to grow a community of like minded individuals striving to grow in holiness and encourage her in her faith journey. She is so thankful for taking the leap and going outside of her comfort zone to discover the wonderful friends that God has in store for her.
Kara continues to reside in St Marys where she has taught high school religion for the last six years. She currently works for Crown equipment building controllers.
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.
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.
Sharing Her Story
Kara’s love for reading and writing goes back as early as her elementary school days. By the grace of God, she collected multiple journals, poems, and short stories over the years which grew and blossomed into her story The Clutter: Sorting Through Life in Light of Christ’s Love. This realistic fiction story combined with Kara’s poems and personal journal entries is the result of a deep longing to share the joy of a life centered on Christ and what a great adventure even the most ordinary of days can be when He is in the lead!
Sharing Her Story
Kara’s love for reading and writing goes back as early as her elementary school days. By the grace of God, she collected multiple journals, poems, and short stories over the years which grew and blossomed into her story The Clutter: Sorting Through Life in Light of Christ’s Love. This realistic fiction story combined with Kara’s poems and personal journal entries is the result of a deep longing to share the joy of a life centered on Christ and what a great adventure even the most ordinary of days can be when He is in the lead!
Holiness is not a process of adding anything, but of subtraction. It is a removal of myself to make space for God. . . . Not I, but God.
– St. Carlo Acutis
Holiness is not a process of adding anything, but of subtraction. It is a removal of myself to make space for God. . . . Not I, but God.
– St. Carlo Acutis
Help fund Kara's book!
Journeys Revealed Ministries is a non-profit Catholic apostolate dedicated to sharing the stories of souls. We walk with each writer on the difficult journey of writing and publishing their faith journey at no cost to them in hopes of blessing others with the message of hope and healing. We are one body in Christ called to help others by giving authentic witness to God. Publishing books, of course, incurs cost, so we cannot fulfill our mission without the generosity of people like you. Thank you for helping us fund* our next book!
* All donations are tax deductible. Funds donated to this publication will first be applied to the costs of publishing this publication. The funding for this publication will be open for three months and will close on June 1, 2026. However, if (1) the funding needed for this publication is not raised in its entirety by this date; or (2) the actual cost of publishing this publication is less than what we have quoted in our estimate above, you—the donor—agree to allow the funds you’ve given to be moved into JRM’s general operating fund; provided, however, that if you prefer a refund in the event that the funding needed for this publication is not raised in its entirety by this date, you please contact us within 30 days after the funding for this publication closes. Please note: The total cost estimated to publish this title is based on a good faith estimate of all the costs JRM will incur based on the current quotes we’ve received and our work on previous publications. The actual cost of publishing this title may be less than this quoted amount.
Funding Goal: $15,180 by June 1, 2026.
Help fund Kara's book!
Journeys Revealed Ministries is a non-profit Catholic apostolate dedicated to sharing the stories of souls. We walk with each writer on the difficult journey of writing and publishing their faith journey at no cost to them in hopes of blessing others with the message of hope and healing. We are one body in Christ called to help others by giving authentic witness to God. Publishing books, of course, incurs cost, so we cannot fulfill our mission without the generosity of people like you. Thank you for helping us fund* our next book!
* All donations are tax deductible. Funds donated to this publication will first be applied to the costs of publishing this publication. The funding for this publication will be open for three months and will close on June 1, 2026. However, if (1) the funding needed for this publication is not raised in its entirety by this date; or (2) the actual cost of publishing this publication is less than what we have quoted in our estimate above, you—the donor—agree to allow the funds you’ve given to be moved into JRM’s general operating fund; provided, however, that if you prefer a refund in the event that the funding needed for this publication is not raised in its entirety by this date, you please contact us within 30 days after the funding for this publication closes. Please note: The total cost estimated to publish this title is based on a good faith estimate of all the costs JRM will incur based on the current quotes we’ve received and our work on previous publications. The actual cost of publishing this title may be less than this quoted amount.
FUNDING GOAL:
$15,180 by June 1, 2026.