My name is Lisa Sullivan and I am the owner of
Green Donkey Marketing
and the creator and developer of the product "I Surrender This ®".
For as long as I can remember I have been searching for purpose in my life. Searching and seeking to
find meaning and understanding and always, always questioning the status quo. I was always impatient
to become "all that I could be", and only realize now, I always was. Each moment had been
perfect and leading to the time when I could put all of what I had learned together to help others in
need by teaching them about Surrender.
When the idea for this product came to me "in an instant", I knew that I had finally found
the "purpose" I had been looking for. This "instant" had taken a lifetime of events
to be created, but it took one event to be the catalyst for all the others that had culminated in my
life up to that point. This event was 9/11 and the fear that day brought on.
I had battled with fear my whole life. A fear that came out of nowhere and haunted my thoughts from
the time I was a small child. My fear though was not a fear with a cause, it was just a looming cloud
ready to break on many days of my life. I developed panic and depression which went undiagnosed for
years and it scarred my being.
Just before 9/11, my life had smoothed out and I felt happy and at peace for the first time in years.
My daughter was in college and my son had just weeks before realized a life long dream and entered the
military as an infantry soldier. On the morning of 9/11 this lifelong dream of my sons became the
catalyst for this product.
I will never forget receiving a phone call from my brother the morning of 9/11 and he said to me,
"This will lead to war". WAR? I was still reeling from seeing the third plane crash into the
Pentagon and had not even thought of war. WAR? You would have to know me, I am a person who seeks and
wants peace at all times. I hate confrontation and I do my best to live a life of love. WAR? Believe it
or not I had specifically asked the recruiter if he thought there was any chance of WAR and he said it
did not seem likely at this time. I think he meant it.
So when I found myself facing the biggest challenge of my life, sending my beloved son off to war, I
quickly found out that this demon of mine called fear was still holed up with a vengeance deep inside
the very core of my being. To say it lightly, I was a mess! The vision my mind was creating was getting
worse by the minute until one day, when my fear was beyond my own comprehension, I was given this gift
which I call Surrender. It was the understanding that there was nothing I could do that would prevent
my son from going to war and there was no way I could physically or emotionally protect him anymore.
All I had left was my faith that a Power greater than myself could do what I could not. That if I totally and completely Surrendered
all outcomes to this Power and believed with my whole heart and soul for Perfection to surround this situation,
that I could find relief from this all encompassing fear.
Six years have passed since I wrote these words. When I wrote them, my son was deployed to Afghanistan and would
continue on to deploy to Iraq in 2005. Day by day and sometimes moment by moment I held onto my belief. I trusted in the concept of Surrender.
It was not always easy and there were times when panic filled my thoughts, but with "I Surrender This ®" in hand I would write. I would release my fears
and ask for grace to follow me and my son. I would ask for peace to fill the hearts of all mankind and surround us with mercy. I would find my space in the
center of the Universe.
Every person has their own demons, their own fears, their own issues. Let us be one together in our support
and encouragement to each other. We can offer our best each day to ourselves and to the world. We can put our
trust and faith in the hand of the Universal Source of all that is and know without question that all is well and taken care of. We can
completely Surrender and be at peace in the midst of chaos. Fear is just a thought and thoughts can be changed.
This is the greatest gift we have ever been given. It is a gift which will change your life when you fully
understand it. Choose Love instead of fear. Choose Abundance instead of lack. Choose Hope, Faith, Trust and Peace.
Know that your life is perfect now. Surrender to this perfection.
Take just this moment and live and love it and Surrender the past and the future and behold the Present moment of Now.
My name is Lisa Sullivan and I am the owner of
