If you had one hour to live and could make just one phone call, who would you call? What would you say? And why are you waiting?
Richard Carlson’s sudden, tragic death in December 2006 left his millions of fans reeling, but even their many letters, calls, and e-mails couldn’t erase the loss felt by his wife and partner, Kristine. To assuage her grief, she pored over a quarter century’s supply of love letters, reliving the emotions and cherishing her late husband’s memory. In a profoundly moving act of healing, she focused on one letter full of particularly apt questions, which Richard had given to her on their eighteenth anniversary, and answered these questions with keen insight and fresh passion. Kris offers her heartfelt response to Richard’s moving letter.
Both an intimate look inside a special relationship and a gift to the many people whose lives were changed by Richard’s work, An Hour to Live, An Hour to Love will have readers everywhere wondering how they themselves would answer the question: if you had one hour to live, what would you do, and who would you call?
An Hour to Live, An Hour to Love is inspiring and uplifting, and shows the importance of treasuring each day as the incredible gift that it is.
"Richard Carlson, so beloved to many of us,
writes to his own true love from a place somewhere between life and death. The
love with which he writes to her, and the love with which she answers, provide a
teaching for all of us: on life, on death, and on the existence of a spirit that
transcends them both."
--Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love and The Age of
Miracles
"Together Richard and Kris Carlson have given
us the gift of eternal love, the secret to sharing it and keeping it alive.“
--Joe Bailey, author of Fearproof Your Life and Slowing Down to the
Speed of Life (co-author, Richard Carlson)
“When our true love departs, there is an
absence left in their wake not unlike the circles expanding from a mountain
pulled from the sea. But love never dies, and can even grow on either side of
the river.”
--Stephen Levine, author of A Year to Live
“Richard and Kristine Carlson write with such
vulnerability, clarity, compassion, and depth that it touched every fiber of our
hearts. This awesome book will ignite the spiritual core in all that are
fortunate enough to choose to read and bathe in it.”
--Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., and Diane V. Cirincione, Ph.D., authors of
Finding Our Way Home
“An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love is a
genuine love story and a moving reminder that in the midst of our busyness, our
lives revolve around a few irreplaceable human beings. Reading these poignant
pages made me stop in my tracks, hug my husband, call my daughter, and pet my
cat.”
--Victoria Moran, author of Creating a Charmed Life
“Richard and Kris Carlson open their hearts to
each other—and to the reader—in an intimate, tender love song that caresses your
heart and nurtures your soul. This book is an inspiring, heartfelt reminder of
the blissful aliveness we feel when we recognize the only two things we need to
know to be happy: the only thing we need to do is LOVE.”
--John E. Welshons, author of When Prayers aren’t Answered and
Awakening from Grief
“A true story of love and loss, An Hour to
Live, an Hour to Love gives hope to anyone courageous enough to risk feeling
everything for love.”
--Yvonne and Rich Dutra, co-founders of Challenge Day and the Be the Change Movement
