Glad you like the question, Matthew.

We can tell stories the way we want, but we must make them logical stories if they are about reality.

So, yes, we can start out with God, but we must be logical about God. We were given brains in our existence -- we can say God provided us brains -- so we better use them.

To envision God in our universe, we must accept that space is larger than God. Space is the only entity that is truly infinite. If we make God real, then God cannot be infinite (but God can have infinite wisdom without a problem). God cannot conquer space, because it is larger than God (and at the same time less than God because space, while real, is also a nothing, a phenomenon).

If interested:

https://fred-rick.medium.com/in-the-beginning-there-was-separation-b36fb1eeb6a3