Our understanding of God and so much of our language of God is tied up in God's transcendence, God's magnificence, God's all being, all powerful, all knowing. This sort of unfathomable, ineffable and indescribable being, unreachable in so many ways, invisible. To speak of God as to speak beyond our own capacity for understanding.   Jesus insists on this language, this parental language, this familial language, because throughout Jesus' life and ministry, Jesus is trying to teach people that we are deeply and utterly and inextricably connected to God. That we are totally and utterly belonging to God. That we have the same last name as God and we share the same house, the same blood as God.   This is the level of intimacy with God that Jesus would like us to understand.