Life Lessons for West African Youth

About the Book

This book, LIFE LESSONS for West African Youth, is dedicated to our students at B.L.E.S.S. UNIVERSITY, which originated in the late summer of 2019. It is for their growth and continuing formulation of a World View that will sustain them throughout their lives. Every effort has been made to make the reading basic and simple, readable and comprehensible to all of our students. We desire that it will be a REFERENCE BOOK that will be used and referred to in order to help our students grow and learn in life. It has been the honor of a lifetime to teach these amazing African Angels (my kids) during these past few years. No greater thing have I ever done in my life, and no greater passion have I ever had in my life than to be able to work with them.

About the Author

Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut has been writing/publishing for several decades, but trying to figure out the meaning to life’s deepest questions for much longer than that. With years of intense familiarity in education, business, personal study, and real-life experience behind him, the questions, in his mind, still vastly outweigh the answers. Michael has dedicated many years of his life piecing together the jigsaw puzzle of a balanced personal philosophy and worldview that has evolved to be both effective and reasonable. He claims it has saved him from a life of emptiness and despair. Failing to find this from the religious, science, and social communities, he set out on an eclectic path of personal enlightenment. Philosophy of everyday life is important for everyone. Michael understands this. He has actively written books in an effort to create a pattern of anthological thought that provides his readers with all of what they need to encounter life in a more meaningful and successful way. Michael now resides back in the United States - in the city of Indianapolis - having formerly spent large quantities of time thinking and writing in the pueblos and rainforests of Central America. His quest to leave a comprehensively written legacy of life is by his own admission, an endless one. Faustina Adzofia experienced her first writing encounter with the book, Africa! ...we love you. This is her second co-authored work with Michael. Being just into her 30's, she has been a seeker of God since childhood. As a young girl in the bush of Africa, she called upon God. She somehow knew that God was there, in her life and at work in everything she did. Faustina is a gifted photographer with more than ten years producing photographic magic. Her passion for this field is apparent in all she does. She has a mind that naturally boxes and frames things, and a system of thinking that makes her a sensible person. We anticipate more co-authoring yet to come. Like Michael, her passion for a philosophy of everyday life is something that affects her in life. Michael's Balanced Life principles of the mind, body, social and spiritual realms make sense to her. In their many hours of conversation, there has been much agreement between them on a view of life. Faustina has spent her entire life in Ghana. She formerly lived in Volta Region and now resides in the capitol city of Accra. Faustina's quest to leave a comprehensively life legacy is by her own admission, an endless one. Jane Adanma has been the primary teacher at BLESS UNIVERSITY (Classroom ONE) for the past two years. She is married to a lovely man also named Michael, and the two of them reside outside of Lagos, Nigeria. She has completed advanced studies in graphic and computer and technical design work. Her fact-packed lessons are followed carefully, five times a week. Jane is involved in providing meaningful and helpful information to her students that will round them out and give them more of a Balanced Life involving the mind and body, the social and spiritual. Jane is known as Rabbi Jane (though it is Baby Jane to her Ameican Daddy). The reason the term "rabbi" is used is that it is a teaching title attached to our loving Hebrew and Jewish partners. We choose to view ourselves as "Rabbi's" over teachers. This is since we admire and love the (Jewish) Parent of All Western religion, those rabbi's from the Hebrew tradition. The school is blessed to have Rabbi Jane, as her teaching reflects so much of what we desire for our beloved African students so near and dear to us each day. Jane's quest to leave a comprehensively life legacy is by her own admission, an endless one.