1. Liberty slept peacefully all night long!  Which means I got some sleep as well. 😃

2. Today has been full of pain and nausea so far, BUT Liberty’s brain feels calm enough to watch TV, and she has found a show called Tanked.  It’s all about her love - aquariums.

3. She saw a commercial last week for a funny Christmas show, and she had wanted to watch it, but she was pretty sure she wouldn't be here long enough to see it.  Today, the commercial came on, and she realized the show is only two days away!  She has something happening ahead to look forward to!

4. The verse God gave me last night in the middle of the night: Psalm 27:13 "I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.  Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord."  meant a great deal to Liberty, and her sister Mercy sent a song this morning that was also about God's timing.  Liberty perked up and said out loud, "I hear what You're saying to me, God."  

5. She spent most of the day lazing around and trying to recover from the procedure and the contrast and the anesthesia.  All of those things are very hard on her, and several times she commented on allowing herself to take it easy.  She doesn't have to be eating and moving right on schedule.  She has time to take it in her own body's time.

6. Around noonish, some friends texted that they were downstairs.  They had driven here earlier and had spent time walking around the hospital grounds praying fervently as the Holy Spirit moved them.  When I read that text to Liberty she began happy crying.  "They came to get me!  I AM going to get out of here!"  They also brought her a Christmas tree.

7. A favorite former tutor reached out to her today, and her note really cheered Liberty up.  

8. I met our next door neighbor in the kitchen this evening, and the two of us moms got to chat.  I learned about her daughter, and mentioned that Liberty had been intending to make a picture for her to put on her wall.  The mom said the daughter would be really encouraged by that, so when I returned to our room I shared that information with Liberty.  Liberty half grinned to herself, and said, "Well, I guess my time of lazing around is done.  When you're called to do a job, you've got to do that job no matter what you feel like."  And she hauled herself painfully but joyfully up and set to work on something creative for her neighbor.