Only God is "Present"

The big new trend is psychology and mysticism is mindfulness and being present. Living in the right now, not thinking about the past or the future. I recently read a Christian author commend such a practice. I find it to be hogwash. We are creatures of time and are not capable of being "present" because we live in time with a past and a future. Granted, I understand what many mean by this. Don't be at home with the kids bodily, but at the office in spirit. Or pastor, don't be replaying business meetings in your mind while eating dinner with the family. What I'm addressing is the meditative practice of mindfulness, which has roots in mysticism. Indeed, the prayers of the Psalmist often, when dealing with an issue, think of the past or the future in helping to deal with the current problem.

I was reading Abstract of Systematic Theology  by James P. Boyce, and in his section on the eternity of God, he said that only God is present. He is eternally present. I am going to give this some more thought, but a question - does trying to living only in the present an attempt to only do what God can, and thus a wicked practice?

"Our difficulty in doing so is that we can no more conceive of duration without succession than we can of an eternity a parte ante. But we see that in this conception we are not arriving at a thought in itself erroneous, as in the other case, but are simply recognizing the fact that God's mode of existence, as to time, is different from ours. Ours has succession of moments, increase in the length of the period, is not all of it possessed at the same time, has had beginning and might have an end, and has a past and future as well as present. God has no succession, no increase of life, is possessed of the whole of his existence at once, and eternally possessed, has had no beginning, can have no end, and lives in the present only, having no past or future. This accords with the statements of Scripture. God is always spoken of in the present. He calls himself I AM. His name Jehovah has been supposed mystically to express this. The psalmist says: "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." Ps. 90:2 . 

Thus our Lord, when he would declare his equality with the Father, uses the present tense for each. "My Father worketh even until now, and I work." John 5:17 . So also in like manner he declared his divinity by saying, "Before Abraham was, I am." John 8:58 ."

Like I said, I'll give this some more thought, but I am very leery when Christians start using buzzwords and adapt and promote new practices and call them spiritual disciplines. I'm more and more convinced of the evil of the evangelical industrial complex.