Definition of Success
October 20, 2025 by Peter Lundell
Filed under Daily Devotions, Life Topics
Recently a friend asked me, “Peter, what’s your definition of success? How many books do you have to sell? How much do you have to achieve?” I didn’t have an answer.
A week later, an acquisitions editor who had loved my book proposal and wanted to publish it wrote back and said the publications board thought my previous book sales weren’t high enough to go forward with another one. It was like a sucker punch to my gut. I learned that the whole publishing industry is pulling back. The recession and digitalization are leaving many publishers scared and only working with those who can guarantee big sales. I’m left on the outside. Read more
The Definition of Success
September 15, 2025 by Peter Lundell
Filed under Daily Devotions, Family
One day when I was overworked and stressed, I snapped at my daughter. Later I imagined her growing up and not taking God seriously because she had not seen the life-transforming power of God in her dad’s life—because he was stressed from trying to be successful. If that happened, the life-transforming message would be worthless.
Olympic Courage – Life Courage
September 9, 2025 by Peter Lundell
Filed under Daily Devotions, Life Topics
In the past Winter Olympics I was impressed with the hindrances athletes overcame: A skier who overcame years of poor performance. Another skier who competed despite a knee injury. A skater who skated her life’s best right after her mother died. Lugers who slid despite the fact that one of them had just died on the track. All won medals. And then there was the teenager who became the best figure skater in history.
Blessing Rising from Rubble
May 23, 2025 by Peter Lundell
Filed under Daily Devotions, Life Topics
I was a missionary in Haiti for seven months in 1983. Years later I took a church group there. I developed relationships with many Haitians. Some were good friends. I’ve been to the areas in and around Port-au-Prince and know all the street names and places that are in the news—they were the nicest parts of town. I’ve been to buildings that are now flattened, stayed in houses that slid down the hillside. Recent photos of the earthquake’s devastation bring me to tears. I so badly wish I could be there right now.
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Spinning Tunnels
May 10, 2025 by Peter Lundell
Filed under Daily Devotions, Personal Growth
I’ve lived near Los Angeles for nearly twenty years, and I finally went to Universal Studios with my brother-in-law. We rode the tour bus past movie sets and props. Then the bus stopped in a narrow tunnel. And, because this was Hollywood, the tunnel started turning—the whole tunnel, counterclockwise.
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