Being a clay jar

I don't know whether I have any Syrians among my ancestors; I certainly have some Isaacs. Whether this comes from one of them I very much doubt, but it made me think: "Blessed is the man who knows his own weakness, for this knowledge becomes for him the foundation, the root, and the beginning of all goodness.... When a man knows he is in need of divine help, he offers up many prayers" (Isaac the Syrian). You don't need to be strong or self-sufficient, because the point of life, as I said to one of my friends frustrated by MND last week, is not to achieve, but to be loved and to love. To be more precise, it's to be loved by God and to love him.