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Welcome To Molli's Garden!
It's been over six years since the idea and
the name for this site was placed in Jill (Mattison) Ririe's heart soon after
her 15 year old daughter, Molli, took her own life on July 16, 2001. So
many visitors have spent time here and been helped, by the grace and love of
God. Please take a moment to check out our Guestbook,
along with leaving an entry. It brings such comfort to know you have visited.
We hope you enjoy our new look on this new site and apologize for the tardiness
in the updating. Please spread the word to friends and relatives, and let us
see that this new format is making a difference. We welcome any suggestions
to make this a better place for you to visit. If you have visited before, some
of the information remains the same because it has been helpful to others,
but you will also find new and hopefully interesting pages as well.
Copyright
All items on this site, i.e. music, photos,
lyrics, writings, etc. are copyrighted so please respect that by not downloading
them without permission from the artist or Mollisgarden.com. To do so is illegal
and hurts our ministry of reaching out as we'll have to discontinue using them.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Our goal here is to reach out to young people of all ages
and let them know that they are valuable - You are valuable
- to God, to the World, and to us. If you are struggling in pain with making
a choice between ending your life or getting help and hanging in there for
another day, we want to be that hand reaching back to you to encourage you.
If you know someone who is contemplating hurting themselves, we offer tools
and wisdom. If you are a parent of a young person, educating yourself to all
the concerns and dangers makes you a good parent because suicide is no respector
of persons and has and will hit whomever it can.
You will learn about Molli, a beautiful, young girl who loved
the Lord, and who spent her entire life helping and caring about others; even
talking kids out of
taking their lives only to take her own. How could that happen if she loved
the Lord? The enemy is a liar who is out to kill, steal, and destroy, and he
doesn't discriminate who he destroys. Even though there were no signs leading
up to the sudden, devastating choice that Molli made, our purpose in creating
this site isn't to figure out the reason, known only to God. Molli's entire
life was Christ-based, and the Lord knew her heart. The goal here is to reach
out to all for God's glory so that those who are hurting will know there are
other choices and many who care.
This site is also about the pain left behind
for family and friends in the wake of the choice and completion of Molli's
suicide. It's real, and we talk about it here to present both sides. If Molli
had known the pain caused by her choice she would never have made the drastic
decision that she did.
Why the word "Garden"? The only answer
we have is that Molli's heart, while on this earth, was truly a garden
in progress for the glory of God just as all our lives should be. Her
decision to end her life was the one bad choice she made while here on Earth. It
left a devastating trail of pain in the hearts of so many who loved her, especially
her family, and it certainly didn't glorify God. However, you will learn
as you read about Molli, the acts of kindness and compassion she showed to
others did. We do know that God wants us to view our lives as a
garden.
Molli's Prayer
Molli wrote and recorded the prayer shown
below. It is proof of the faith
and love she had for our Lord Jesus, which is all God requires for us to be
with Him in Heaven when we die. She asked Him for forgiveness and
there's no doubt in my mind that He's given her that.
The tragedy is that she didn't seek and find
answers to whatever pain she was feeling so that she could fulfill God's plan
for her. Our cause is to stop this from happening to even one family
- by helping everyone learn how valuable they are - not only to those that
love them and would be left behind, but to the World...
My Prayer W hen I feel all alone in the world,
His light shines through my heart.
Though I cannot see Him,
I feel Him in my every move.
He takes away my pain.
W hen I find myself stuck in a world
Where my weaknesses overrule me,
I find myself sleeping just so I can visit Him and walk through the gates of
Heaven.
T hen when I wake up, all is well.
It happens a lot, though I don’t mind visiting perfection more than once
a day.
I hope I’m the person
He intended me to be.
I pray and pray every night to shape and mold me into a better person.
Then my world stops.
I freeze and look around me and realize
That I’m the luckiest person alive.
I have a good family, and good friends
Who never make me feel less
And I have wonderful things.
M y Lord and Savior, I thank you
For everything you’ve laid in my path.
I’ll ask you to forgive my sins and to help me only grow from them and
shape me
Into the person I was destined to be.
