Hi nice to meet you

My name is Rebecca DeLaney (usually go by Becka) and I was raised in southern California most of my life. I lived in Spokane, WA for a couple years when I was a kid. I'm so glad I'm back. The weather here is a lot better than it was up there..well actually the pacific northwest is actually really pretty and nice during the summer, fall, and spring. The winter is just too cold for words.

I grew up in Downey, CA (Los Angeles County in case you don't know where that is) and still live there to this day. I lived in Anaheim for a quick minute and have since realized how expensive living on your own can be. I am now in the process of making a comeback.

I work full time at a publishing company located in Irvine for nine motorcycle magazines and a couple of other car/truck magazines assisting four sales reps in the advertising department. I like writing and try to find freelance when I can. I have freelanced mostly for music magazines but would like to explore the idea of writing other people's stories i.e. human interest. I'm really interested in the idea of maybe making a documentary one day. Who knows? I'm still exploring and figuring out where God wants me to do still.
I love coffee/tea places, listening and checking out new music and enjoy experiencing musicians in their element, reading magazines and books (I read a variety of different topics), having deep conversations on random topics, reading the newspaper, a new listener of AM radio, spend way too much time on Facebook and MySpace, working out, driving up the coast, traveling and hanging out with friends and meeting new people.
I grew up Catholic up until I was 18 and left the church because I never felt that I knew God or could feel Him for that matter. Church growing up was more of an activity that was expected of me--a personal relationship with God was a foreign concept to me. It was during this time that I had the curiousity to know if God was real and started reading the Bible on my own. As I read the Bible night after night, I felt a feeling that I had never experienced before--it was like someone was holding me close and never letting me go. It was like if I didn't have my helping of scripture, I felt like something was missing. It was a strange feeling and I never understood at the time what it was. I had accepted Christ in the personal depths of my bedroom but I still really didn't know what that meant. I didn't have an overwhelming conversion like most people talk of, I told Christ I accepted him and that was that.

The next year, I dated a guy who brought my to my first Christian church experience at First Baptist Church of Lakewood. It was very different but I liked learning about a God I felt I never knew. At first I was very angry and felt that I was mislead. I tried going back to my old church and demanded from one of the priests why they taught the congregation about pregatory when there is no mention of it anywhere in the Bible. His answer was very abstract and it left me more confused than before and just plain angry. I began buying Christian books and having a lot of conversations about God to believers and non-believers alike. To make this story short, I have had my downfalls in the faith and I have been on track. I get confused sometimes of my progress and feel that I am not growing. I would like to stay on track and not fall anymore. Sometimes I feel like Paul when he talks about battling with the flesh in Romans Ch 8. I feel like it's a constant war and sometimes I just want to rest. Sometimes I beat myself up when I'm not up to par of where I feel I should be. Really, I just want to know balance.

This is who I am and where I am now. Nice to meet you.