I grew up in a Catholic congregation that was so set on enforcing the maleness of God that even when we read scripture about Sophia, the feminine aspects were either disregarded or else explicitly contradicted. It was quite frustrating, to say the least. (But then, so many things about the Catholic Church are!)

For quite a large proportion of my life I have visualized GOD as appearing rather like, ah, Holly from Red Dwarf. :D

Hee! These days I try to visualize God as Whoopi Goldberg (specifically from that one Muppet Christmas movie).