All for One has hit a year. It is hard to believe I have managed to keep writing here for one whole year. Other blogs I have started fizzled out after a few months. I have been determined to keep this one alive. Sure, I have missed a few days and there have been a few weeks that there hasn’t been something published, but overall, there has been at least one post per week since I started, sometimes more. So, where do I go from here? Good question.  

I believe it is good and healthy to take time for reflection and renewal. Time to evaluate what works and what does not work.  There are things I want to add to All for One. There are things I want to improve. I am not going to mention them right now as I am still contemplating and working through them, but I hope you will stay with me through the changes whatever they look like. More than anything I hope you will see the encouragement to grow closer in your walk with Jesus or to begin your walk with Jesus, whatever your stage of life.  

All for One at its heart is a discipleship/ lifestyle blog intended to help you on your journey with Jesus. Beyond that it could cover anything from Bible study to books to anything else. At one time I had five different blog ideas that I loved and couldn’t decide what I wanted to pursue. So, in a way, I have combined them all here and have only touched the tip of the iceberg of interests and ideas. Yet everything is filtered through my Christian worldview.  

I hope by now you have realized my words are my own and not the product of AI. I do not use AI to plan content or write content. My words and ideas are my own, good or bad.  For me, using AI to write this blog, or any future book or story is unethical and not true writing. There may be those who disagree, and that is fine. The place of AI is the source of debate right now, and people come down on both sides. It is unfortunate that a tool created by man is feared by some as to take the place of man and that we have such a hard time differentiating between what is real and what is AI. The words you read are real. My thoughts are real. Fortunately, they have been filtered and edited, but real just the same.  

I have set up All for One with three sections each with different functions. Third Verse Devotions looks at the old hymns, especially the third verse that often gets overlooked. So far, I have only looked at hymns with which I am familiar. It isn’t all that fair to the wealth of hymns which have been published in the past couple of centuries which are still sung in some churches and still hummed in homes. So, I hope to include hymns I don’t recognize as well. Times Like These is another section of All for One and is set us as Bible study and general posts. It is where this post will go. It is also intended to contain doctrinal studies, cultural thoughts, and things of like matter. We are living in strange and wonderful times. Times Like These is intended to help you on your way and maybe give you some food for thought. The final section is Angela’s Bookshelf. When I started blogging, I had thought that I would lean more toward the book and publishing market. Yet as soon as my fingers hit the keyboard, it became All for One. And what surprised me even more was that Angela’s Bookshelf is my least published page. It isn’t that I am not reading, I am. It is more that I spend more time on the other two pages, but I leave the page because we never know what the future holds, and any of these pages could wax or wane at any time.  

So, is All for One going away? Not a chance. We are just getting started. I always have more to learn, at any age. Technology, in some ways, escapes me, but I keep trying. Isn’t that all any of us can do? We keep pressing forward, forgetting what is behind straining for what is ahead. (Philippians 3: 13-14) 

All for One

Angela