Eternity Can Wait

About the Book

Eternity Can Wait (hard cover) is a book of 164 pages of poetic meditations. It has provided inspiration for general readers, has been found useful by ministers and religious education directors, and has provided a tool for counselors to offer an alternative experience for youth involved in drugs. It is non-sectarian and thus has a universal appeal.

Unsolicited comments such as the following have been made: "an exquisite sensitivity to the universe"---"a touch of Whitman but much more ... the hard optimism of a genuine prophet"---"...a challenge to become all that is best in me."---"The kind of mysticism possible and enriching for our times"---"...I've found spiritual gold."---"You have the most universal mind I have ever encountered in all my 86 years of life!"

Though republished in 1987, a 2006 skeptical reader claimed it has changed his life. Some consider it quantum physics in poetry.

About the Author

Carl Nelson was born and raised on a farm in Wisconsin. He served 6 years in the Marine Corps during WWII, entering as a private and leaving as a captain flying a torpedo bomber. His higher education was gained at St. Olaf Collage, the University of Minnesota, the Chicago Seminary, and the University of Chicago where he was awarded a BA and a BD. He became a minister and served 3 churches for a total of 17 years. Today he lives with Janet, his wife, in the cabin he built in a national forest on leaving the Marine Corps in 1946. Their six children (the first adopted) have long since left home.