Kara was inspired by the words of Natalie Grant, Christian music artist. Kara’s awakening began March 2007.  "As a child I dreamed of becoming an art teacher and till this day I still have that dream.  But as the years came and went art was no longer part of my life.  After 12 years of not picking up my brushes, my husband bought me a canvas. I painted a simple abstract painting on that large canvas and placed it above my t.v.  Everytime I would look at it and find myself thinking, something is missing.  One morning I remembered a dream that I had during the night; a dream of a cross my grandmother was holding.  After the third night I woke up, I grabbed that canvas and began to do what God was telling me to do.  I worked on the painting every waking minute I could for the next six days and breathed every stroke.  I had told a friend from work about the cross I had done.  She told me she collected crosses and asked if I would bring it.  So I did, and I never thought it would be hanging up in a place of worship for everyone to see a month later."  Karas' heart was leading her into a reality that she never knew existed. 

"The hand of God was working in and through me to have the hope 
of helping others. I have chosen to wake up and reveal a deeper,
richer, and risk-taking gift that I believe is a divine appointment. 
A gift with the power to change my life forever.”

As a child, Kara saw many tutors that helped her succeed in school despite a learning disability. One of her tutors said to her; “Kara, you’ve been given this disability for a reason and one day a gift will take its place.” As Kara grew, she was passionate about art. She enjoyed her art classes in high school, and even worked as the teacher’s assistant.  After school she moved to Texas and took art at a two year college but never received a credit due to her disability. She then moved back home and became a wife in 1997 to her husband Don.  Over the next nine years she become a mother of three and her passion for art slipped away. It was as if that part of her was sleeping. Kara was living life the only way she knew how. With selfish ambitions, earthly concerns and desires; having thoughts and ideas that were not pure. Kara was viewing life from a human point of view and not through God’s eyes. It was the hope she found at church, Hope Presbyterian Church, that began to change her life.