Branches

by Ashton Walther

What if we all just chose to be happy

What if we caught a fish from a stream

And cooked it by the fire

What if we built a home from the branches of a forest

by the stream

By the fire

What if we chose to be kind to everyone

What if we spent our days trying to be like Jesus

What if our to-do list was helping others

And our evenings spent with the sunset and the stars

And a fish

From the stream

By the fire

In our home

made from branches of the forest.

about the author

Ashton Walther

is a native Texan raising 3 kids on a ranch in Oklahoma with her husband and 2 mini-schnauzers (along with a growing collection of cows, sheep, goats, horses, donkeys, rabbits, and chickens). Ashton seeks the simple life of following God, being outdoors with her family, and caring for their menagerie of animals. Occasionally, she wrangles her thoughts about the world into poetry, because some things are better said with fewer words.

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