And What Good Will Your Fear Be When The Great Joy Comes? JAMIE PIETRASZ
And What Good Will Your Fear Be When The Great Joy Comes? Says the priest in the garden behind the youth detention center In Georgia while I hold a shovel and I say I know oh I know while trying to avert my dry eyes From the descending sun and the garden I’m supposed to be building and the priest Says to overcome that fear, you must confront it and I Say I know but everything I fear is not here and I mean Here like in this Detention center with me while I avoid The work that God asked me to do and I mean Here like everything I fear that I can still overcome and not Run away from like a monster in a nightmare But I look up at the priest and he is a prism Of my anxiety I mean his worries spread worries And they are all vast and scattered around him and I know Then that everything he fears is also not here and the priest doesn’t ask But I still say hey man, I’ve got no cures, I’ve got no cures even though I have plenty
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