a walk on the lake?

Matthew 14:22-36

The key phrase in this passage is "Take courage. It is I! Don't be afraid." This takes place just after Jesus had fed the 5000. He finally gets the alone time that he originally went out into the country to get but he does it over night. Finally, at about dawn, he catches up to his disciples. The catch in the whole story is that he sent his disciples out on a lake by boat and he catches up to them by walking out to them on the water. The phrase is so matter of fact! No emotion attached to as if this was an every day occurrence: "Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake."
I always wonder what it would be like to be Peter - to take that first step out of the boat and find my weight fully supported by the water. It's freaky enough for me to walk out onto a frozen lake but this lake was not frozen over! I know that the goat of the story is often Peter - he took his eyes off Jesus and focused on the impossibility of what he was doing and we should never do that. But the dude stepped out of the boat! None of the other disciples did that. I don't think I would have done that. Peter's certainly not the hero of this story (because everyone knows that the hero of any story involving Jesus is Jesus) but his initial courage is heroic to me.
None of the other disciples would ever experience what it was like to walk on water except for Peter. I imagine that they asked him all about it. I imagine that they tried to live vicariously through his experience. I wonder if any of them ever tried to do it when they thought no one was looking. May I never have live vicariously through another person's faith experience. Lord, grant me the courage to get out of the boat!