Petering

Just wondering is petering or to peter out have anything to do with the apostle Peter? Dictionary.com did not have an origin.
It's 3:11 am and I cannot stop thinking - thoughts tie me to the alert. Presently: I always thought to peter or to be petering was like being in the middle of a see-saw - indecision. Apparently petering is to deminish slowly and stop, or to tire.

Either way I am petering.
And in this near delierious state I think I may even be Petering (as in apostle Peter - ing).

• I have learnt more about having patience this past year than in the whole sum of my life and yet I lack it still.
• Hope teases me dancing in and out of my heart on a day to day some times minute to minute basis.
• Have I become what I never wanted to? What did I never want to become?

Settled?
willing to Settle?
Just resigned to petering?

Hopeless reflections - hopefully morning will bring hope.

I'm so witty.