Claim. SMM teaches that God’s omnipresence is not a sheer metaphysical attribute (being-everywhere as substance or knowledge) but is enacted through love — only love freely crosses every distance, and this is the actual medium of God’s “being there.”
Elaboration. “If we talk of God’s omnipresence, where is God? He is not found in knowledge. Love, however, is different. It is the parents’ heart of love toward their children that makes omnipresence reasonable and possible” (6.1.-only-love-freely-traverses-borders, 59-101, 1972.7.9).
This reconfigures the classical attribute. Omnipresence-as-extension (God is everywhere as substance) is replaced by omnipresence-as-relation (God reaches everywhere through love, as a parent’s heart reaches a distant child). The phenomenological warrant SMM offers: a mother senses her child’s accident from kilometers away — love bridges distance in a way knowledge alone never could (ibid, 201-356, 1990.4.30).
The move is consistent with the chapter’s overall redirection: God’s “omni-” attributes are shifted away from sheer power/scope toward their relational operation — coherent with csg-even-god-is-absolutely-obedient-to-love and csg-god-cannot-love-without-a-partner. Without love, “everything is empty; it is as if nothing exists” (ibid, 91-323, 1977.3.1).
See also. csg-god-is-incorporeal-formless