Welcome to Redemption Roadhouse: Pathways to Spiritual Healing

In The Lost Prairie, Ellery’s friend Nia creates a website called “Redemption Roadhouse.” This is that website.

Nia is a mesmerizing, courageous woman who has been used and exploited by men in her life, in spite of her apparent strength. In a way, The Lost Prairie is a little bit of Nia’s story. Her tale is one that hasn’t been fully told, and perhaps one day she will whisper it in my ear and I’ll chronicle it for you.

On the surface, we’ve been saturated with the tragedies horrific and humiliating. Our society seems to want to hear more; we want to compare our lives to others, and the abuse details we read and hear about are salacious gossip, if nothing else.

But we seldom get to the point where we witness God using women who have been hurt, put down, minimized, and forgotten.

I touched lightly on Nia’s awakening on her new life opening up. One day, I might relate Nia’s whole story.

Nia had it figured out—we're all just strangers in a rattletrap old roadhouse. The cold North wind blows through the chinks, and we’re all working out our lives and telling our stories.

But we are redeemed, and that makes this place very special.

I hope you can stop for a while, rest and hear the dramas, and remember your own while we wait to discover how God is going to use us as we travel from our beginnings to our destinations.