Hi Bruce,
Feeling are just feelings, neither right nor wrong. I can't help the way I feel. Much of the way I feel was past to me at an early age from my parents. Some of my feeling are psycologically driven, and and some my feelings are environmentally driven.
I cannot prove God nor can I put God into a nutshell and say this is God based on what I want God to be, and what I want God to do for me. God is God.
I will say that my concept of God is as a loving God. It is though loving God that I learned to love myself. Only after I have learned to love myself can I love others.
Sorry to get so philosophical on you, but there it is.
LelandJ