Joy and Fear

Joy always had an expansive effect, just as fear has a contracting effect. ~ Emmet Fox

Fear we know well, having lived it,
having personally verified
the Big Book assertion
This short word 
somehow touches 
about every aspect 
of our lives. It was an evil
and corroding thread; 
the fabric of our existence 
was shot through with it.We recognize, have experienced,
the contracting effect.
But that concept
every action has an equal
and opposite reaction...
Could that really even happen with fear?
Can joy be the opposite of fear?
It feels like it. We act in reverse
to the two. Yes, Joy is the opposite of fear
and when we welcome job
it shoves fear out the back door...
at rocketlike speed!