Equally important is recognizing the multiplicity of the divine. Divinity is in everything: In you, in me, in the tree outside the window, the dirt on your shoes, and the cockroach living under the porch. It is important to recognize this all-encompassing nature of the divine, but in itself it is just too much to handle. How can you relate to "everything"? How can you take comfort in an omnipresent divinity?
Cultures from the most ancient of times have recognized a need to focus divinity down to a size that a single human mind can relate to. Cultures rich in the expression of the Divine may have thousands upon thousands of Goddesses and Gods available for the searcher.
Sometimes it helps to have a Goddess to relate to in a certain point in our lives. A strong, independent, high-achieving Goddess can inspire us when trying to make bold steps forward in a career. A Divine Mother can reassure and commisserate with a human mother in her sacred role of nurturing, or can give us the child-like comfort that we all need at times.
Some Goddesses focus on tasks, some on emotions, some on goals, and some on states of being. Some speak to us from deep in our blood and the blood of our ancestors, and some from the depths of the particular piece of earth we call home. Some speak to us across divisions of location or ethnicity and call to us with the voice of the Earth herself.
But, most importantly of all, each will speak to us differently. You are unique-- the Goddesses know this and you must too. Whether you feel called by one and then another, changing every month or day or hour, or whether you feel a lifelong pull to one vision that touches you deeply-- or any place in-between these-- the call will be for you and you alone.
Modern culture tends to homogenize the divine-- to blur all differences into one vision. But in doing so, it forgets that no two people react to Divinity in the same way. A Goddess that truly inspires and gives your sister's or your best friend's life its deepest meaning may leave you cold. And vice versa. A Goddess who surrounds you with feelings of nurturing comfort and solace may inspire another to win the battles she fights and yet another to grieve for those she has lost.
There is nothing "wrong" with any of these responses. All streams must find their own path to the ocean. We are each walking through the same wood, but if we all follow the exact same path, we have created nothing but a great strip of highway running through the center-- upon which there is no actual wood left at all.
It is important always to remember the divine in everything-- forgetting that and cutting off "our" Divinity can lead to a warped, prejudiced view of the world-- but there's nothing wrong with reaching out for (and accepting!) a personal touch in your spiritual life.