Clarification to recent post.  Thank you, friend, for your comment.

In the last paragraph I made what may be a confusing thought:  God is present in the moment, for he is outside it all.  This does seem incongruous, but is a stark theological matter.

If God created all that is, then he is 'outside' it all.  He is as some say, "the Other".  The Bible is clear he created out of nothing, not out of himself.  Now we should debate whether the Bible is literal or figurative in its creation story, but should we debate that this entire universe of ours, multiplied by many others and of space that seems infinite should simply happen by chance.  Science seems to be proving that the odds are increasingly long, dwarfing a winning Powerball ticket's odds, as the complexities and integration of the sub-atomic and the cosmic scales of measure become more unified.

God's 'out-sideness' is what promotes David's comments in Ps. 139.  "You knew my days before I was born."  God is not limited to our experience, I too believe.  He is not surprised by what surprises me.

And so, to my mind and spirit, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made, the one who made me knows better than I what I am experiencing and what will come of it.  I am limited in my appreciation of all the myriad details of my experience, but not without support and insight.

God is continually present because he is absolutely not the same as his creation.  His 'distance' is minuscule, his presence is continual.

Hope that helps you understand my thought, BP!  XX