Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s determination to be strong in the spiritual disciplines sustained him during the dark days of prison…

From the first days in the prison he continued the steady discipline of his Christian life: meditation, intercession and thanksgiving, the daily “praying” of the Psalms and Bible study.

He wrote in November (He was arrested on April 5) to Bethge that by that time he had already read  the Old Testament through two and half times.

From this inexhaustible supply of spiritual strength, life once more began to well up (Mary Bosanquet, The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 248-249).

What a wonderful example for us today.  Let us build healthy and consistent patterns of growing in the Lord, so that when dark days come our way–and they always do–those same habits will allow us to be strong and to endure.