Servicemen and women and their families have heavy hearts when they are torn apart by war.

One Fort Gordon soldier’s call of duty led her to share a comforting message from a higher power.

With strength from God, Tara McAdoo walked and wrote her way through one of the hardest times in her life in 2005.

“My husband and I were both stationed in Germany. He had just left for Iraq, a couple of months after he left, I found out I was going to Afghanistan,” she said. “God was trying to show me the Army was taking me to Afghanistan, but He was using them as an avenue to take me there.”

She would also have to leave behind her three children, her youngest just one-year-old at the time.

“I expected God to do something great and wonderful in my life and he did,” she said. “God would speak to me about the poems. I would write them on little bits of paper and at night time, I would take all the papers out of my pocket and I would have poems.”

McAdoo, who just published her book of poems, “Glorious Expressions,” last year, says she knows the poetry was divine intervention not only for her, but for others.

“I knew it had to be God because I had never written before,” she said. “I would be doing something or sit down and have a conversation with somebody and God would share the poem with me and I would give it to that person. And they'd be like, ‘Wow, you're speaking to me!”

Now settled in the Augusta area and stationed at Fort Gordon, McAdoo says she wants to continue her ministry of service.

“It let me know I can achieve it, I can do it. It's not for any fame or anything like that, it gave me a sense of, OK, God you gave this to me and I want to share it with somebody else.”

If you're interested in learning more about “Glorious Expressions” Tara McAdoo will hold a book signing at the Columbia County Library on February 2nd from 2:30-4:30 p.m.

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