As if he had said, Lord Jesus, what heavenly joy is liking to me without desire of Thee, whilst I am on earth, or without love of Thee when I come to Heaven? As who should say, right none. If, then, thou wilt feel anything of Him, bodily or spiritually, covet nothing but only to feel in truth within thee a desire of His grace and of His merciful presence, so that thou mayest think that it is not possible for thy heart to find any rest in anything but in Him. Thus coveted David, when he said thus: My soul hath coveted, or longed after, the desire of thy righteousness at all times. Seek, then, as David did, desire by desire. And if thou feelest, by thy desire in prayers and in meditations, the familiar presence of Jesus Christ in thy soul, bind thy heart fast thereto, that it fall not from it; and if thou shouldst stumble, that thou mayest soon find Him again. (John Climacus)

Of all the saints did any stumble more than David?

Still, we honor him and envy the depth of his relationship with God.

While David sinned as much as, perhaps more than, most of us, he was much quicker to recognize and repent of his sins than I am.

If David sinned boldly, so too was he bold in self-awareness and seeking God's forgiveness.

Today I will, almost certainly, stumble. Will I reach out to God in helping me up?

The image is of Bathsheba going to David by Cecchino del Salviati.