Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Both sexes come out of God himself.
God's Spirit (ruah) has a feminine gender (grammatically) in Hebrew.
Pope John Paul I refered to God as Mother:
"And Premier Begin recalls that the Jewish people once passed difficult moments and addressed the Lord complaining and saying: "You have forsaken us, you have forgotten us!" "No!" —He replied through Isaiah the Prophet—"Can a mother forget her own child? But even if it should happen, God will never forget his people".
"Also we who are here have the same sentiments; we are the objects of undying love on the part of God. We know: he has always his eyes open on us, even when it seems to be dark. He is our father: even more he is our mother. He does not want to hurt us, He wants only to do good to us, to all of us. If children are ill, they have additional claim to be loved by their mother. And we too, if by chance we are sick with badness, on the wrong track, have yet another claim to be loved by the Lord."
http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/JP1PRAYR.HTM
Blessed Julian of Norwich also referred to God as Mother:
http://www.vatican.va/spirit/documen...orwich_en.html
St. Catherine of Siena (doctor of the Church) spoke of the Holy Spirit as mother:
“The Holy Spirit becomes [for people who abandon themselves to Providence] a mother who feeds them from the breast of divine charity.”
http://www.salvationhistory.com/libr...nd%20notes.pdf
In the above link, you can also read Dr. Scott Hahn's thoughts.
As for me, I think if we have a God as our Heavenly Father it would be strange to think we are without a divine Heavenly Mother and also strange to think that the Heavenly Father would be alone without a feminine companion. Since Jesus refers to his God as Father, he must be masculine in some sense of the word or after some manner of speaking -- otherwise Jesus' use of the word "Father" would be arbitrary. But maybe some persons -- namely divine persons -- are beyond romantic relationships and romance and spiritual sexuality has not a cosmic significance but is a mere detail of some finite creatures.
Some philosophers use "she" in reference to God.
No one has seen God, except Jesus Christ and He revealed Him to us as our Father but had also referred to Himself in the femine.
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!" -- Luke 13:34
The main problem here as I see it:
When we call God She, we begin to create God in our own image and put Him in a box which shouldn't be done because He is bigger than gender itself.
To see God as
both feminine and masculine does not make one contrary to the Church as some impugn but to see Him as only Female would be naturally disordered.
To put God in any one specific gender box over the other is missing out on His fullness and to do so just goes to prove we are all struggling.
Then of course there are the matters of rationalism and modernistic errors that go to far with the idea of gender roles for God such as radical feminism, inclusive language and new age practices that I won't go into but should be avoided.
I realize the gender sense of God isn't being used as feminist or new agers do here, but rather in the theological sense, just as Jesus referred to God as Father, not in the gender sense, but in the theological.
God is provider of all things as a father, but also nurtures and protects us as a mother. Neither case is gender in a literal sense, but in the
effect.
Some women, say that they can not handle the title, "Father," when speaking about God because their own fathers were so abusive that it causes problems for them.
They have the definition of what a good father is, but can't relate to it.
At that point, I'm not able to understand. My own father was also abusive, but that doesn't change my understanding of what a good father is, especially God the Father as He is the example that animates the deficiencies of what a not a good father in the first place.
Down the page under the Inclusive language heading at this link on EWTN:
Bible Versions - Approved it says:
Image of God in the Differentiation of the Sexes
"God is not a solitary nature but a Communion of Persons. As noted above, the Processions of Persons (Father generating the Son, and Father and Son spirating the Holy Spirit) is reflected in the order of Man's own creation. "Let us make man in our image and likeness. Male and female he created them" (Gen. 1:26). God made the representative type Man (Adam) first, and then differentiated Man into two kinds, male and female, by creating Eve. With respect to the likeness of God's divine nature in Man, man and woman are equal. Thus, Adam is the representative type because of his humanity, not his maleness. However, with respect to the order of creating, as a created analogy to the order of procession within the Trinity, there is a first and second. Adam is analogous to the Father in coming first, Eve to the Son in coming second. Within God this is not a sexual distinction, the Eternal Word is not male or female in the divine nature, but God from God. Rather, it is an order of the procession of life and love. The Father gives life and love to the Son, and the Son returns both infinitely and perfectly, which can only be a Divine Person, the Holy Spirit."
I recommend all interested to read that whole page.
Peace and God bless,
Joab.
that's so tough. I believe that Christ can be all things to us. There are people who have lost parents, there are others who have parents but never felt loved by them.. it's good to know that our Father is the perfect Father, that no matter what things are in our past He can heal us and show us true Love. I'm very glad that He has shown this to you. 
