About the Author Paul Snider grew up in the back streets and alleyways of Detroit and, alternately, on an apple farm near Georgian Bay, Ontario. He moved fifteen times before he was twelve. His religious life has often been checkered, with patches of light and shadow. During the Korean War he was what has been described as "an atheist in a foxhole." Nevertheless, he survived the war with two purple hearts. Years later he learned he was not an atheist at all. What he had been denying all along was the clouded, inconsistent, man-made image of God. As he continued the search for knowledge of God's higher ways, he met a woman with a shimmering spirit. She told him what she had been taught. "Everything you need to grow is already around you, and within you." There seemed to be a deep truth in what she said. This was the beginning of his rebirth. Paul is the father of seven, husband (to Mary) of fifty-seven years, now retired from a business career, and living in Illinois.