Some more stuff about God and gender if anyone is still interested.
Distinctly feminin representations of aspects of God:
Wisdom (already covered)
The Hebrew word for spirit is ruaḥ, meaning wind, breath, inspiration; the noun is grammatically feminine.
In the "Odes of Solomon'; the oldest surviving Christian hymnal, the word for "Holy Spirit" is grammatically female.
Language and translation issues around gender neutrality concepts.
The Greek word, 'pneuma', spirit has neutral grammatical gender.
The Holy Spirit is translated in masculine terms only in languages such as Latin and English.
We don't have a gender neutral english pronoun to deal with this translation problem. (Many people use s/he to try to convey this idea instead of just using "it". Other solutions are to just use the word 'they' but this can lead to contextual problems with some texts.):
The Greek pronoun (αὐτ translated "Him" in John 14, speaking of the Holy Spirit, refers to self in all persons: him, her, it. "Him" in John 14 is a pronoun without gender.
The New Testament refers to the Spirit (πνεῦμα with grammatical neuter. "
In Hebrew apparently many of the names of God such as s YHVH, Adonai, YHVH are considered gender neutral. A gender-neutral translation of these is "Sovereign".
We only run into the problem of conveying gender neutral aspects of God when translating into English. It's not and issue if you read Hebrew.
Apparently RCC catachism teaches that God is neither man nor woman because God is pure in spirit and sexless. God can be reflected in both father aspects and mother aspects. However it is proper to refer to him as "Father" because of his role in the world as an authority figure.
Some mothering imagery....
Isaiah 49
3 Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his suffering ones. 14 But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me." 15 Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you
Isaiah 66
13 As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Psalm 131
2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me