God as mother
“As a woman pastor taught on prayer, she asked her class of eighth graders to write answers to a number of questions. One was “When you pray, what do you call God?” For all of them, their number one answer was “Father”. Another question was “When you pray, what do you pray for?” Number one on all of their lists was “forgiveness.” Is that a coincidence? If they had routinely prayed to God as mother rather than father, would they still have made forgiveness their number one prayer request, their most urgent need?
