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How much rain has fallen?

I continue with the drought/rain/rain gauge analogy with regards to my dating relationship side of my life.

After that post about the drought ending, I did indeed change my hairstyle slightly (just how I style it as I mentioned in the comments). I have also decided to take the plunge to dye out some of the grey in it this coming Tuesday (Nov 1st!). I’ve always been against using chemicals on my hair, because of the concerns about endocrine disruption. BUT I’m tired of all of the grey. I’m probably 25% grey (maybe 15%?) – it is hard to tell, because some spots are more along the 80% side and others are in the 10% side.
I’ve also decided that as long as I’m getting rid of the grey, I might as well add some highlights! I’m feeling rather edgy these days, and I want my hair to reflect my new mood!

In other news, the flirtation that went nowhere is starting to go somewhere. Somewhere intriguing! My rain gauge has some rain in it!

The back-story is that this is a guy I know at church, and I’ve been attracted to him since I met him over a year ago. He is super-committed to the church, has a deep faith, and is really outgoing and funny. However, a few weeks after I met him, I saw him sit with a woman at church. Thus, I suspected he was dating someone, and sure enough, he was. Consequently, I never presumed I’d have a chance to date him. I commenced stomping down any feelings I might have for him, and I was just friendly and social like I’d be with any guys who are married (even though he is single (but since he was in this relationship, I was going ahead and treating him as being off limits)).

At a church event this fall, he was flirting with me some, so I asked him about that relationship. To make a long story short, I wrote the last post after we’d flirted at that event and they were still together; hence my despair about it ever going anywhere. However, this week, they decided to officially split. I was a bit in shock when he told me.

He has told me that he wants some time before we date; however, I would say that there are some promising rains in the future!

Oddly enough, he told me this week too that he really likes my hair color; it was completely unprompted and I hadn’t told him about my plans to color it at all! I’m still changing it, but that was rather ironic, I thought.

I’m really happy!

I’ve been praying and trying to discern God’s plan for my life. He was too (praying and trying to discern God’s plan for his life), as it turns out. Maybe this is part of the plan. It is hard to know. Sometimes, even with prayer, it can be hard to discern the path. But today, the path seems less murky than it did last week!

yay!