@grahmilou God...IS...present. He lives here, on this forum. Or in your home...and surely in mine. He is in our children, in the stars, in the physicians who tend to you, and in the many nurses. We may not be granted the ending we've been hoping for (in our sleep or at winning the lottery), but we get to be intimately acquainted at the time of our passing.

There's a lovely short hymn that I sing out loud into the night air at 0100 each morning in my pre-bed hot tub, beside our back deck: (i sing in the bass section of our choral society, so I can sing it twice, in melody an the bass part)