Olive plants

If you were to think of your family as plants, especially your siblings as plants, what kind of plants would they be? What would you be? Would you be an isolated shrub in the desert?  Would you be a moss clinging to an oak?

The psalmist uses the following phrase about the children of "every one that feareth the Lord" -

"thy children [shall be] like olive plants round about thy table." (Psalm 128:3)

You are like olive plants, or as another translation has it, olive "shoots" - that is if your father qualifies as one who "feareth the Lord."

I think this is meant to connote beauty, order, bounty, and happiness.  The pleasures of earth and sun and rain.  This is a sign of the deep order and inter-connectedness of the human family and nature.  Perhaps it is a sign pointing to another kingdom, but I believe it is also an acknowledgment that God is good to us even in our fallen state.  God gives us rest and nourishment. This is a sign that the fear of the Lord is good.