Last night driving home across the 520 Bridge in the storm that was raging was pretty scary. The gale force winds were whipping waves up over the floating bridge and crashing down on the road deck. What is normally a 50 mile an hour bridge, was down to 20 or 30 just so you could see things. It was pretty scary, but then so was having to tell Heidi’s father that I wanted to marry her.

This little conversation with Heidi’s dad still had to happen. It was something we had always discussed as Heidi had said that if I was ever to marry her, she would expect to get her fathers blessing first. So we were not officially engaged till I had that conversation. I was dreading this moment, because it is a moment that any man will dread. Having to look the father of the bride in the eyes and say “I would like to marry your daughter”.

Now Heidi’s dad is not that scary. It wasn’t going to pull a gun on me, or threaten me, he just isn’t that person. That didn’t mean that I was as nervous as anything. What if he said no? What if he said that he did not think I was good enough. I don’t know why I was worried because both of Heidi’s parents gave me their blessing but it still had me worried.

Some things in life are scary. I look at life every day and wonder just how I get through things. I was scared to make the step on the plane a couple of years back. I was scared the day I married Heidi. I wanted to make sure that everything I was doing was right. Well in life you can never be certain of anything. You just have to do what is right, do what you think is right. Take the good with the bad and go for it head first.

At least that is how I look at it!