Claim. A life of attendance means doing every act — seeing, hearing, eating, speaking — centered on God twenty-four hours a day, so that no separation can be inserted between the self and the Father.
Elaboration. SMM defines attendance as total perceptual reorientation: “you should do everything – look, listen, talk, feel and love – centering on God. You should not do so centering on yourself” (1.2. Living a life of oneness, 66-231, 1973.5.13). The body itself is reframed as the Father’s instrument: “My awareness, intuition, and even my sensory organs all belong to the Father” (ibid, 8-294, 1960.2.14). The temporal scope is total — “You should live a life of attendance whether you are asleep or awake. If you think in this way twenty-four hours a day, Satan cannot invade you” (ibid, 161-231, 1987.2.15). Concretely, the day begins by dedicating the first words and the first step to Heaven (ibid, 17-296, 1967.2.15), and meals are eaten “for God” rather than for the self, transforming food into a “sacred” element (ibid, 92-166, 1977.4.3). The implication is that attendance is not a discrete religious activity but a continuous mode of existence.