The Jewish mystics use the term Ayn Sof when speaking of God the Creator. The term literally means "no thing" and the point is that any term we mortals would use to describe Him (e.g. time) actually reduces our understanding of Him to whatever term we used.
Perhaps that precludes what I was going to say, which is this:
According to scripture God is Love, God is Truth, God is Life, God is The Way. Encapsulate that (Love, Truth, Life, The Way) into the Eternal Now, the way you describe it AG, feel It all at once and hold onto It and we should be getting closer. That seems to me to be where all religions are directing us. That also seems to incorporate all the Cosmos and Science as we know it, which is why I drug Einstein and E=MC2 into the picture, and lead us to I AM!
Thank you so much for sharing your testimony, dear brother in Christ!