Eating daily of the tree of life

He that makes it his business to eat daily of the tree of life will have not appetite unto other fruit, though the tree that bear them seem to stand in the midst of paradise. (John Owen Overcoming Sin and Temptation p215)

The great business of parenting is to teach our children to feed daily on the tree of life, that they may not have appetite for deceitful fruit. Yet we cannot teach what we do not know, and so it is first the responsibility of parents to learn for ourselves (not only for our own sakes, but for our children's) to drink daily of the water of life and feed on the bread of life in order to be able to model, impart and teach.