November 2011
1 post
Stable without horses
“It’s definitely one of those days. But that’s okay. Those are allowed to come around every once in a while.”
August 2011
12 posts
On weddings.
My future groom better have a lot of friends and/or brothers. And no sisters. Cause pretty sure I’m going to have like eleven bridesmaids.
Wolves in Sheeps' Clothing.
I love when prayers get answered. It hurts this time, but it’s worth the pain.
“The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).” John 10:10 Amplified.
Creativity.
I think of myself as an artist. It’s a little difficult to be considered an artist when you have absolutely no talent for drawing, painting, sculpting, or even writing, but that only means that I have to be an especially creative artist.
Most often, I express my creativity through acquiring beautiful things and arranging them in lovely ways. I have a very low tolerance for ugly. I...
Miracles.
Last night, my baby sister and two of her friends were making a 2.5 hour drive down from the mountains when it started raining, and they hydroplaned. They spun around on the interstate and then the car rolled over TEN times. Lives have been lost from so much less.
Several witnesses stopped and said they were surprised that the kids were up and walking; the accident looked so deadly. One man...
My eyes have been tiny fountains of tears for pretty much the last 15 hours straight. I think it’s hormonal. It’s not annoying in the least, though. I haven’t cried in months. It’s a relief.
“It’s my belief that pride is the chief cause of the decline in the number...”
– “Husbands and Wives,” Brooks and Dunn
“I don’t want to leave him. Please, Lord, if you don’t want us to be...”
– My Journal, Date Unknown, 2010.
Pride:
Thinking too much about myself.
Prescription for contentment:
Never allow yourself to complain about anything—not even the weather.
Never picture yourself in any other circumstances or someplace else.
Never compare your lot with another’s.
Never allow yourself to wish this or that had been otherwise.
Never dwell on tomorrow—remember that [tomorrow] is God’s, not ours.
“Most of us base our contentment on our circumstances,...
Love.
I want to be beautiful Make you stand in awe Look inside my heart, and be amazed I want to hear you say Who I am is quite enough Just want to be worthy of love And beautiful I was so unique Now I feel skin deep I count on the make-up to cover it all Crying myself to sleep cause I cannot keep their attention I thought I could be strong But it’s killing me Does someone hear my...
Ten minutes in the mind of me.
First of all, the sheet/wall situation has been fixed. Bought another sheet and scrunched the tops to make it look like curtains. Pictures later.
The book I’m reading is narrated by a lady with dementia. You have to be a gifted author to make all of the jumping around that occurs in the mind of a dementia patient readable. It is readable, though. It’s exactly my taste. Love it.
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July 2011
13 posts
Fear
Sometimes I’m afraid to mention God here. I guess I’m afraid people won’t understand and they’ll think I’m an idiot. But I guess I mention him quite a bit because that relationship is a huge part of my life, and a huge part of how I’ve become the Maggie that my friends now know.
I want to clarify that I don’t mean to imply that I think I’m...
Ink
Using a typewriter to journal just seems so natural to me. The hum of the gears and the stroke of each key make it impossible to concentrate on anything but the moment. I’m no writer. I’ve always used a journal to speak from my heart. I imagine that my words fall on the ears of a lover in the unseen realm of heaven. A lover who understands who I am and thinks I am breathtakingly...
'member that one time...
…I stapled a shimmery eggplant-colored curtain (okay, it’s a sheet) to my wall? Yeah, that was today … staples + perfectionism don’t mix. Shabby chic maybe? No pictures. If I had two flat sheets, and it covered the whole wall, maybe I’d like it better. I love the color.
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“Please don’t be in love with someone else…
Please don’t have...”
– I love this song so much and I’m not exactly sure why. It has pretty much nothing to do with my life. “Enchanted” Taylor Swift.
God and I now meet under my dining room table :) I built a fort.
Currently Reading:
Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul
Wuthering Heights
Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Things I would like to do [over time] once I pay...
Ballet Lessons
Search for and buy a couch and chair that I can love for a long time (Love you long time.)
Visit North Carolina
Visit Seattle again
Buy yarn
Stay in one of those tree house hotel/bed-and-breakfast things
Buy the things I’ve had my eye on at World Market
Buy a fun computer
I suppose I should start putting some money in my savings every once in a while.
Start a loose...
February 2011
3 posts
tumbleweed
Today I felt like a tangled mess. But only at times. Like right now. All of my muscles are tensed and achy and I feel vaguely like the world is going to come crashing in on me at any moment.
Annie. I love Annie. She is one of my new favorite people. Hanging out with her today felt almost like hanging out with my sister. I needed that.
I wish I felt happy right now.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly...”
– C.S. Lewis
Success
Thank the good Lord.. my second official tutoring session went absolutely brilliantly.
January 2011
5 posts
I have a website!
…and a business, sort of! It’s really fun. I’ve put up a total of 840 flyers over the last three days. That’s a lot. I reeeeeaally hope I get some clients.
www.themathgal.com
Quote of the day
“I have the word poop stuck in my head.”
I love having a sister who will laugh with me about these things.
Boyfriend wins :)
On Wednesday, January 5, 2011, Mitchell Smith wrote:
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> That seagull stalking reminds me of something that happened this morning. While we were snorkling to identify sample collection areas, a barricuda started to follow us, and kep within 20 ft of us for about an hour until we left the water. It was kinda scary, because big fish with big teeth in the water with you are kinda scary. Things are going well here, it is hot and we are busy most of the time. We are going to dive again in a few minutes at some neat underwater rock formations.
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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011, Maggie Hruska wrote:
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> This seagull [picture]...watched me for the whole 30 minutes that I spent eating lunch at Edmonds Beach. I was in the car! What the heck! I did have a sourdough bread bowl filled with clam chowder, so I think he knew I had bread and was hoping I'd feed him. I didn't.
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December 2010
2 posts
Beauty
When being alive is what makes you gorgeous.
November 2010
4 posts
Christina Rossetti, "A Sonnet of Sonnets, #6."
Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke,— I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would not lose Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot’s wife cast back a faithless look, Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, though I be the feeblest of God’s host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with his crook. Yet...
Like.
“It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.”
Oswald Chambers, “Discovering Divine Design, November 14.” My Utmost For His Highest.
songs that will now forever remind me of you
Another First Kiss - They Might Be Giants Leavin’ on a Jet Plane - John Denver Nothing But Flowers - Talking Heads In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel Love Your Love the Most - Eric Church
to be continued.
October 2010
13 posts
“…the thought of there being a chance that God’s promises (via the...”
– ^ from an email I wrote today ^
Currently reading:
Hinds’ Feet On High Places by Hannah Hurnard, audiobook read by Nadia Mays.
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Let it be?
I hate that your masks make you inaccessible to me; they prevent you from knowing me, too. You’re so guarded. You’re so afraid. You’re so vulnerable, but that’s the last thing you want to be; so you hide it. You cover it well. But the stone you’ve chosen— the stone of which your masks are crafted— has walled you into isolation. I miss you. I need you to be...
Relative transparency
May I never again pretend to be perfect. May I always admit my faults and ask Jesus to redeem them, even as I struggle. May I accept the Lord’s abundant empathy and loving-kindness in my life. May I recognize my need for it. May I never be too proud to accept his gifts.
The crooked paths I create for myself.
“Consider the work of God, for who is able to straighten what he has bent? In the day of prosperity be happy, but in the day of adversity consider—God has made the one as well as the other so that man may not discover anything that will be after him.” (Ecclesiastes 7:13-14, NASB)
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“There is the crooked that God causes and the...
Redid
I’m seeing some of my prayers answered lately. It’s… cool. I mean, I have had and do have my share of doubts about my faith, so encouragement from the King is always welcome.
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Some words of encouragement over the years from my dear friend and mentor Jessie:
“You radiate the Most High King!”
“‘Those who know your name will trust in You, for You Lord...
Forbes List
World’s 100 Most Powerful Women 2010
interesting when arranged by category. interesting on some level, regardless, but I’m a freak for analysis.