Wearing God

I have been reading Lauren Winner's "Wearing God" (it is due back to the library tomorrow)

p. 17 It is one of my working theories in the spiritual life that when a prayer (or a parable, or a phrase from the Bible, or a question posed in a sermon, or a picture in a museum, or a passage in a book) rubs you the wrong way but you find yourself unable to set down the rankling thing and move on, the rankling might in fact be the Holy Spirit's way of getting your attention, of fixing your eyes and asking you to look more closely at the prayer or parable or painting or phrase- to discover what it holds for you, if only you'd be willing to explore it, and yourself, deeply enough,

Common Prayer: A liturgy for Ordinary Radicals Jan 27:

Help us to live so foolishly for you that we draw onlookers and those who would deride us. and while they watch and mock, change our hearts that we might learn to laugh at the foolishness this world calls normal and run away with the circus that is real life.