What Would You Do?
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Life is Beautiful by Sarah M. Johnson
Life is Beautiful: How a Lost Girl Became
a True, Confident Child of God, by Sarah M. Johnson, takes
you on a full journey of trauma, loss, and finally resilience. While on a
mission’s trip in Guatemala, a small Cessna Caravan’s engine blows while
carrying fourteen passengers. Unfortunately, the Cessna crashes in a remote
village, leaving eleven of the fourteen passengers dead. One passenger, Sarah,
shares her story in Life is Beautiful,
about the deaths of her father and brother; her mother’s extreme physical and
emotional injuries, and Sarah’s self-discovery to accept this new life.
Chapter 1 – The Crash
I remember all of the emotions, the trees
whipping by, everything happening so fast, dad yelling, Here we go, and
mom screaming, Stop it. I remember my brother Zachary looking back at
me, his eyes bright with fear as I prayed God please...
I remember the sense of something coming; you
know it’s coming and wonder: will I live?
I remember the violence of the plane plowing
into the ground as we attempted an emergency landing in a roughhewn field...Boom,
boom, boom...and then nothing but an unnerving silence.
I don’t know if I blacked out or merely paused
with my eyes closed in the stillness of those first few moments. Awareness
comes slowly. Then in a rushed breath of shock and revelation, Thank God I’m
alive.
My eyes open to an eerily lit silence where
sunlight and shadow intermingle, making it difficult to see into the new
geography of the plane’s interior. My head and body buzz. My mind trips on the
dissonance of dangling upside down, held a few inches from the ceiling of the plane’s
cabin by my seatbelt.
Taking stock of my body, I notice that I peed my
pants and there is a small cut on my left arm. Looking up, I see that one foot
is missing its shoe. My eyes squint into bright sunlight that passes through a
relatively large doorway next to me that was torn open.
The only noise to break the silence is the
erratic popping of electricity; the final groans of a dying airplane.
I move my arms first and then my legs, which
causes small shards of glass to fall from where they’re lodged in my clothes
and upturned seat. I tilt my head back toward the ceiling beneath me and it is
covered in broken glass.
My hair dangles down away from my face, but the
position of my body and the way sunlight cuts through the cabin makes it
difficult to see much of the plane. In those few seconds I realize that I am
okay and begin to think that maybe we are all okay; that the crash wasn’t so
bad.
Life is Beautiful will be released on August 25, 2015. It
is available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
About the Author:
Sarah M. Johnson is currently a graduate student seeking her Marriage
and Family Therapy degree. She will graduate in 2015. She graduated with a
Bachelor of Science degree in Social Work. After graduating, she plans to open
up a private practice office and guide those who are seeking their own self-discoveries
of love and happiness.
Sarah believes that adversity is a gateway for change, and that
through the difficult times of sorrow, loss, depression, anxiety, relationship
issues, trauma, disease, or other mental illness, we can use this adversity to
self-explore and change for the better. We must not run away from the
adversity, but face it, heal, and use this particular adversity as a learning
lesson.
We all have the capacity to be happy and love ourselves; but we must
utilize all necessary support systems, medical professionals, mental health
professionals, Religious affiliations, (and many more that I am not mentioning)
to help us find the Power Within. The Power Within helps us to accept our
adversity and create necessary change for a life of love and happiness.
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