Growing Like Olive Plants

A devotion on Psalm 128:3

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.
–Psalm 128:3

Perhaps olive plants are not the first image that comes to mind when we think of children.

Kudzu, cacti, or some sort of jungle tree may seem a better fit, perhaps, but consider the olive tree.

Years ago, olive trees wer…