I am thanking God that unto us a Child was born. I am thanking Him also that there was a pure-hearted woman prepared to receive that Child with all that motherhood would mean of daily trust, daily dependence, daily obedience. I thank Him for her silence. That spirit is not in me at all , not naturally. I want to learn what she had learned so early: the deep guarding in her heart of each event, mulling over its meaning from God, waiting in silence for His word to her.

I want to learn, too, that it is not an extraordinary spirituality that makes one refuse to do ordinary work, but a wish to prove that one is not ordinary — which is a dead giveaway of spiritual conceit. I want to respond in unhesitating obedience as she did: Anything You say, Lord.

 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

-Elisabeth Elliot

Why in the world make blessings into burdens? Why choose fear instead of joy? When I surrender to stress; don't I advertise the unreliability of God?

Choose fear –or completely trust Him. 

One cannot exist if the other is true.

Ann Voskamp

If we have completely entrusted something to God, we must keep our hands off it. He can guard it better than we can, and He does not need our help.  …Often there is nothing as godly as inactivity on our part, or nothing as harmful as restless working, for God has promised to work His sovereign will.

-A.B. Simpson

I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high, between the horses' path and the wheeltrack.
  An inch more to right or left had sealed its fate, or an inch higher; and yet it lived to flourish as much as if it had a thousand acres of untrodden space around it , and never knew the danger it incurred. 

It did not borrow trouble, nor invite an evil fate by apprehending it.

-Henry D. Thoreau

For further reading, see Luke 12:22-30.