Whoever said that life was simple wasn't doing us a favour. Not to be haunted by doubt, temptation, and ambiguity is to close oneself off to deep thought and feeling. To think and to feel is to be open to many things, darkness as well as light, hatred as well as love, despair as well as hope. Faith, by definition, is not certitude. That's good to remember.
Ambiguity is perhaps the one constant within human experience.
That's a philosophical way of saying that it's not simple out there, that our heads and hearts are full of too many things and that much of life is about sorting things out. And sorting things out is seldom easy. Many voices inside and outside of us compete with each other and beckon us with their own truth - instinctual truth, higher truth, head truth, heart truth, Christian truth, secular truth, scientific truth, economic truth. Deep inside us, as we know, the most noble call of all is to be a saint, to believe that meaning and happiness lie in generosity, self-forgetfulness, gratitude, graciousness, and worship. Yet, other voices inside us make other, no less real, demands.