Redemption song

My friend has been asking all week what redemption means to me. I've been so bogged down with work and stuff I've not had chance to reflect. Easter Sunday seems like a good day to answer, tho there's much busyness first thing with a church Easter breakfast, hiding of the Sunday school eggs and then I'm teaching a taize song to start the service. So hopefully more later, but for now the way I understand redemption is that even when it feels like the end, it isn't the end. That even when things are awful and hopeless and it's impossible to imagine anything good coming out of a situation, somehow a tiny speck of potential remains and change, growth and even good can occur. That we're not defined by the awfulness. Hope and love finally win out.