The beloved and famous character, Peter Pan, whose story has been the center of admiration sprinkled with perhaps a tad of daydreaming from the likes of children at heart not the least of which, if you like fun facts, is the king of pop himself, spoke the above words. 

They are a little different from the original. I’ve changed them for reasons I think you’ll understand. But this famous flying venturer and spelunking resident of Neverland says them right before he thinks he’ll pass away from this world.

He muses about the excitement he’ll find in the next. “To die will be an awfully big adventure,” he boasts in the original. Of course, our red-headed protagonist lives on as beyond these words, apparently, is even more adventure waiting for him in all kinds of imaginary wonder residing in the world of Neverland, where no one is allowed to grow up. 

I suppose I’m on a Disney kick, but the only difference between this week and last (out of many) is that no, I didn’t watch the movie Peter Pan recently.

But these words of his, with my modest modification, keep ringing in my head since last week. 

One of my favorite poems is a short one, written by Erin Hanson, and I can’t seem to stop thinking of these lines either. It goes:

There is freedom waiting for you,

On the breezes of the sky,

And you ask, “What if I fall?”

Oh but my darling,

What if you fly?

Because to fall, would be an awfully big adventure. 

And anyway, what if in fact, you do fly?

So I hope, dear one, wherever you are, you have the courage to jump—to take that leap of faith and answer the voice of God calling out to you from the other side. Because on the other end is always new life. 

And I hope you’ll take His hand, launching into the distance and meeting horizons you never ever could (not even in Never ever Land).

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I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. - 2 Corinthians 5:17