This is really happening to Peter. He lives it, so that we can understand its meaning. We know that just to live day to day is like walking on water. What we pretend each day is solid ground beneath us is really wavery death capable of swallowing us at any second. We know what it looks like to sink into that element and despair. We know what it’s like to move forward by pure denial, never looking down at the truth. But we also know a few, a very few, who walk in full knowledge and full faith, unafraid, eyes on Christ: life in abundance.
