Confession time: I do not like carnivals. They are crowded and dirty and there are weird people there. My daughter is 9 and my son is 10 and they have never been to a carnival... until tonight. Well my son spent the night with a friend so he still has not had the carnival experience.
We got down there tonight a little later than I had planned so most of the rides were filled with anxious teens and preteens, there were a few families left but not too many. All the ride workers were very nice though I must say. As we were walking into the carnival, my friend called and she had hurt her ankle playing volleyball so we prayed over the phone. Her ankle didn't get better, but my phone was almost dead and I did NOT want to be down there without a cell phone, just in case.
We rode some rides and got funnel cake and my daughter managed to help me spend nearly 50$ in under an hour in that place ( maybe that is why I don't like carnivals, they are money pits!). But I realized as we were leaving that I wasn't nervous at all and in fact I was looking around for people that might need a miracle. As I headed to the car I saw a man in a wheelchair. I thought to myself, do I go... then I looked down and saw he was missing a leg from the knee down. I didn't go over but I prayed for him as I walked by and I prayed that God would give me the strength to begin to really believe for new limbs for people.
So I would call the carnival an overall not horrible experience. I lived through it with no major catastrophes, well, other than spending almost 50$ on nothing. :O)
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