For quite a large proportion of my life I have visualized GOD as appearing rather like, ah, Holly from Red Dwarf. :D
There's actually a tradition that dates back to, well, came by way of the Jewish Kabalistic shekinah, but shows up in all sorts of gnostic, mystical, spiritual, heretical, magickal and metaphorical Christian traditions of Sophia, the Wisdom of God, the first emanation of God-the-creator, the Lone Power, the Holy Spirit, the Bride of Christ, the creative Word that started the universe, or any combination of the above and a few other things, but almost always defined in some way as the missing feminine in the Christian Godhood. I really much prefer that to the attempts to find the missing feminine in Marianism, so in my private theology, Christ is the Son of Man, the Holy Spirit is feminine - sort of the Midwife of Creation, and God-the-i-am is both-either-neither-all.
Anyway, at the very least I always point out that God could be a girl in the same spirit that I never color Christ's skin white on the coloring pages.
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There's actually a tradition that dates back to, well, came by way of the Jewish Kabalistic shekinah, but shows up in all sorts of gnostic, mystical, spiritual, heretical, magickal and metaphorical Christian traditions of Sophia, the Wisdom of God, the first emanation of God-the-creator, the Lone Power, the Holy Spirit, the Bride of Christ, the creative Word that started the universe, or any combination of the above and a few other things, but almost always defined in some way as the missing feminine in the Christian Godhood. I really much prefer that to the attempts to find the missing feminine in Marianism, so in my private theology, Christ is the Son of Man, the Holy Spirit is feminine - sort of the Midwife of Creation, and God-the-i-am is both-either-neither-all.
Anyway, at the very least I always point out that God could be a girl in the same spirit that I never color Christ's skin white on the coloring pages.