No, this isn't Photoshop.  It's actually real human footprints engrained in hardwood.

"70 year-old Buddhist monk Hua Chi has been praying in the same spot at his temple in  Tongren, China for over 20 years. His footprints, which are up to 1.2 inches deep in some areas, are the result of performing his prayers up to 3000 times a day. Now that he is 70, he says that he has greatly reduced his quantity of prayers to 1,000 times each day."

Operative word in that last paragraph is "performing".  How often do we do this?  I don't know that I've tried to "perform" for God all that much.  I've tried to be as honest as I can be with Him.  But I certainly have performed for others before.

I'd probably be proud if the wood where I prayed had imprints in it.  Like some sort of spiritual Boy Scout Merit Badge... the Eagle of them all actually.  Or maybe, if I prayed that much, I'd be much more humble and wouldn't be as proud.  I don't know.  I think of these things late at night.

What about you?  What's the easiest spiritual discipline (an oxymoron in itself) and what's the toughest?

via NOTCOT and OffBeatEarth