Have you ever attended a conference, a workshop, or even just listened to a speaker as they tell you about a hard time in their life?

They explain the situation, the darkness, the tragedy that they walked through. Then as they keep speaking, they also explain how the story resolved. They tell you of how they got hope, how the ending either came about in a beautiful way or was redemptive, perhaps in spite of not being what they were hoping for. What did you come away with? Hope? A renewed sense of energy to keep pressing ahead?