Yes, we can talk to God as if God were really a human mother or father. Jesus did: Our Father, which art in heaven...Give us this day our daily bread. He was talking to a Father that he knew very intimately. My Father within me, he doeth the works…I watch the Father. What he doeth I do afterward. You see, to him “The Father” was a very real thing. Not like a human father, of course, but nevertheless it was something that was divine, protective, supplying, strong. Do you see that? [...]