Afraid of Easter?

Noticing that the word fear is used in Matthew 28 to describe both the reaction of the guards at Jesus' tomb (v.4) and the women who had seen the angel and received the news of their Lord's resurrection (v.8), Eugene Peterson comments that

it's not the same thing. There is a fear that incapacitates us for dealing with God, and there is a fear that pulls us out of our preoccupation with ourselves, our feelings, or our circumstances into a world of wonder. It pulls us out of ourselves into the very action of God.

(Living the Resurrection, p.17)