The unknown is scary...

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
“Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown!”
And he replied:
“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.
That shall be to you better than [a] light and safer than a known way.

M. Louise Haskins

as stated in the April General Conference 2009 by President Thomas S. Monson