Brittany's Musings
Brittany Overbeck
Director of Youth Ministries
I went on a mini-vacation last week. I spent a couple days with my niece, came back for youth group and went to Disneyland with my godsons. I love going to Disneyland. It doesn't matter how many times I go, there is always something new to see or do. I could ride Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain Railroad a ton! And I always love driving the Autopia cars.
A few years back I remember hearing about the hidden Mickey's at Disneyland. It's said that throughout Disneyland, if you look hard enough, you can find images of Mickey. Just the face. I found my first one on the Haunted Mansion ride. Three plates put together that formed a Mickey face. That's the only one I've found. Partly because I forget when I'm on the ride (enjoying myself a little!) and partly because they are so hard to spot!
There's a few websites out there, though, that are dedicated to the hidden Mickey's people can send in their pictures and sightings and I even found a checklist today, that you can bet I'll be taking with me if we ever do a youth trip to Disneyland! It's just another thing that makes Disneyland so fun.
I've been thinking that just like Disneyland has hidden Mickey's, that are there in plain view but a little hard to find, we have a God, in Christianity, that is there in plain view but sometimes a little hard to find. God likes to hide in places that seem obvious, once we find them, but take a little looking to search out. Sometimes God is very obvious, like the Mickey that I saw on Main Street in Disneyland, we can't help but notice how God is working and moving. Sometimes, though, God is more mysterious and we have to work a little harder in order to fully grasp God.
It would be nice to print out a spreadsheet of all the places that God will be and what God will be doing, to have a clear map of what God is up to in our lives, but that's not the way God works. We get to do a little searching, a little exploring on this journey of faith. And to be honest, I wouldn't want it any other way.