You want faith to be simple but it feels complicated

You long for a simple faith and feel buried in complications — and I want to show you the simplicity is nearer than the tangle suggests. The complications are often the mind's, not the heart's — at the level of the heart, faith can be very simple, a turning toward, a love, a trust, while it is the mind that spins the complications of theology and argument around this simple core, so seek the simplicity in the heart rather than the mind, in the turning and trusting rather than the complex thinking. You need not resolve every complication to have a simple faith — you can hold a simple, living faith while leaving the questions open, as the saints held a simple trust amid vast unresolved mysteries, so release the demand to untangle every knot before your faith can be simple. And return to the simple core when the complications overwhelm — beneath all the theology, faith comes down to a few simple movements, to love, to trust, to turn toward the sacred, so make that core your home and let the complexity be something you visit rather than live in. Drop into the heart, and rest in the simple core. What complications are tangling your faith?