IS GOD JUST "OUR FATHER"?

I don't think so...I think that God is equally "OUR MOTHER".

I guess probably the best place to start would be in Scripture...

(Deutero- [there's 3 of them!]) Isaiah:
42:14 - "For a long time I have kept silent, I have been quiet and held myself back. But now, like a woman in childbirth, I cry out, I gasp and pant."
OK, so maybe here God is saying that God is LIKE a woman in childbirth, but to me, this is still an image that should not be forgotten. I also find it hard to see why God would choose to be like a woman in childbirth, with the crying, gasping & panting, unless God WAS like a woman in childbirth...(Sorry, don't know if I've explained that v well?!)

Then, of course, there's Wisdom 8-9, which is probably more Spirit orientated, but still speaks of God with the use of female imagery...(No, I'm not going to quote the full 2 chapters!)

My ideas aren't actually new...They're in fact pretty old...No, that doesn't mean 19th century. I'm talking 14th century, & Julian of Norwich. I know that not everyone particularly likes the stuff she said...I think some of it is pretty cool though:
"...what is it that Jesus our true Mother, does?...he carries us within himself in love, and he went into labour for the full time, suffering the most agonising pains and the sharpest birth pangs possible, util in the end he died...The human mother suckles her child with her own milk, and with the utmost tender kindness, our beloved Mother, Jesus, feeds us with himself.
(c.1390; Revelations of Divine Love ch.60)

I think it's also possible to perceive God as being transcendent of sex; perhaps it is possible that God so radically transcends human experience that no human language can speak totally accurately about God? (Not sure I totally agree, though I can kind of see the point.)
"It is neither patriarchal God nor matriarchal Goddess, neither the Masculine nor the Feminine, neither divine Fatherhood, nor complementary Motherhood that redeems and saves."
(Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza; Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet.)

Perhaps, envisioning God as in the image of one sex, rather than both, subordinates the other sex? Perhaps, entirely male-orientated speech about God does not allow the equal participation of women in divine spheres?

I think that it can even be said that the experience of labour and the delivery of a baby is a great metaphor for God's struggle to birth a new heaven and a new earth:
"The loud birthing cry evokes a God who is in hard labour, sweating, pushing with all her might to bring forth justice, the fruit of her love...And it is not over yet, only eschatologically will the delivery take place..."
(Elizabeth Johnson; She Who Is)

I don't think that any language about God can be fully sufficient to describe God, but I think that it is important that the language that we do use is inclusive.

God as Father is, I believe, an image that must remain central within my faith, but I think it is also an image that can be enriched by images such as that of Mother.

You can also think about it this way...Speaking of God as Father does not mean God has a male dimension, just as speaking of God as Mother does not mean God has a female dimension, just as speaking of God as a lion or eagle does not mean God has an animal dimension (I'm not altogther sure of what I think of this).

As women and men are created in the image of God, God can be spoken of as much in female metaphor as in male metaphor - both of them are equally valid.