![]() It was a good thing they were staunch Calvinists grounded in their faith, because that move was a battle for the family. His father, a successful architect, made the decision to emigrate to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1914 at the outbreak of World War I to protect the family, especially his older brothers from service in the army. He had pneumonia three times in the next few years and his entire community prayed for his survival. During one of its furious storms, on a cold dark night in 1906, in the village of Wierum, Friesland, Netherlands, a weak little baby boy was born. The North Atlantic is famous for its tempetuosity. Let me tell you a little about his life, and you tell me if you think it was unremarkable. It is another example of how adversity produces good things. His simple storytelling is powerful in its simplicity and there is nothing dull or unremarkable about the stories he crafted.Īctually, his first story was produced as a desperate attempt to keep his family from starving. I contend that the non-writing part made the writing part remarkable. He basically described his life as divided between the writing part and the non-writing part. ![]() To most of us, the events of his life are far from ordinary. When asked to tell his life story, Meindert DeJong wrestled to find something interesting enough to record. ![]()
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