Clocks

Kitchen timer and stove clock with selfie. (Why does my stove have a mirror??)

C is for ... is today's DDW challenge.

It's three o'clock in the morning.
No, wait, it only feels like that.
It's actually ... ta dah ... 300 BLIPS IN 300 DAYS.

Couldn't have done it without you, lovely blipfriends! Ta!


I looked for '300' in the Bible and found one of my favorite characters, Gideon, who was called a mighty man of valor by an angel of God, though he was whimpering and hiding from the enemy. There's a selfie in that somewhere, too. So here's the story of how God made Gideon send all of his fighting men away until he had only 300 left, and with those few he won the battle.


2 The Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give Midian into their hands, for Israel would become boastful, saying, ‘My own power has delivered me.’ 3 Now therefore come, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is afraid and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So 22,000 people returned, but 10,000 remained.

4 Then the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water and I will test them for you there. Therefore it shall be that he of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go with you; but everyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.” 5 So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “You shall separate everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps, as well as everyone who kneels to drink.” 6 Now the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men; but all the rest of the people kneeled to drink water. 7 The Lord said to Gideon, “I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped and will give the Midianites into your hands; so let all the other people go, each man to his home.” 8 So the 300 men took the people’s provisions and their trumpets into their hands. And Gideon sent all the other men of Israel, each to his tent, but retained the 300 men; and the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

9 Now the same night it came about that the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hands."

— Judges 7, NASB