I write for the one who has run out of words.
This is the testimony underneath the books.
Tara’s voice carries the weight of lived revelation, calling others out of survival and into victory.
She is honest and she is authoritative. She carries a deep conviction to give language to the unseen and crushing places so many walk through alone.
Her life is not what most would expect. She has traveled to over 54 countries, founded an international award-winning photography business, played Division I soccer, flown in a helicopter through the jungles of Madagascar, and spent over 14 years in nonprofit work in Uganda. Both of her parents were in the world of Olympic swimming. She has lived in all four corners of the United States. The perspective she carries is wide, and it is lived.
She is also a mother of four, two of whom she has walked through agonizing health crises, and she has faced serious health battles of her own. She knows, from the inside, what it means to need words when your own have run out.
What I Believe
Scripture is alive and active.
The Word is not a record of what God once said. It is what He is still saying, and it does not return empty. I would not survive without the Word. When I have run out of words, the Word has not run out of me.
God does not waste the pain.
Some seasons seem to stretch endlessly. The ground is marked with suffering, with joy, with breakthrough and with delay. If there is one thing I know, deep in my spirit, it is this. He does not waste the pain. Even when the circumstances around you say the opposite, keep trusting Him. Talk to Him. Don’t ever believe the lie that you are forgotten.
There are only Two Kingdoms.
What you say over your life matters. It carries weight and it either ushers in light or darkness. A declaration is not a prayer and it is not a wish. It is agreement with what God has already said is true, spoken out loud until your own ears believe it. You are not speaking things into existence. You are speaking your way back into agreement with the One who already did.
Community in the wilderness changes everything.
The longer the hard season runs, the more alone it convinces you that you are. You were never meant to carry it without words, and you were never meant to carry it without people. My hope is that I can hand you a Scripture-heavy decree you could not find, and you realize you were never as alone as the silence told you.
Beyond the Books
Tara lives outside of Nashville with her husband Clint and their four kids — Maxx, Bayy, Boone, and Goldy.
She grew up with one dream: to play soccer at the highest level. She earned a scholarship to play Division I, and in her freshman year, a career-devastating injury changed everything — it rocked her identity to the core. While continuing to play soccer, she chose to pursue an English degree. Her professor told her nobody would ever read a book she wrote.
After graduating, she built an internationally award-winning photography business and spent years learning to say things without words. Then she wrote the book anyway, sitting at her kitchen table. Declarations in the Desert sold 40,000 copies. Then, suddenly, a publishing deal — her second book coming September 2026, her third in August 2027. Messages from people who found her words at 3am when they had none of their own.
The Lord can do anything with a surrendered yes.
These declarations weren’t written from a comfortable desk after the storm had passed. They were written while Clint was fighting for his life and Tara’s own body was failing her — health issues that had taken her in and out of hospitals throughout her life, the kind that don’t show on your face but empty everything underneath. She wrote from inside it — contending for her family with a faith that was more gasp than shout.
She has traveled most of her life and intends to keep going. Most places give her something. One place gives her everything. England — the Lake District, the wide fells and the still water, the sky that sits low and grey over all of it. She keeps going back to write, to rest, and to just be.
Fourteen years ago, she and Clint said yes to Uganda, and they haven’t stopped. Project R12 builds sustainable solutions in rural villages, empowering local people to be the change in their own country.
Beyond the books, she writes on Substack — longer, slower, closer to the bone than anything that fits in a caption. On Instagram, the daily life of someone who actually believes these declarations are weapons shows up in real time.
If you’re in a hard place tonight, you’re one of the reasons she writes.