February 10, 2017 Madison, GA. The Wall

There have been a lot of famous walls throughout history. Most took a long time to build, lasted a long time and some even exist to this day. Here are some of the notables; The Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall, The Western Wall in Jerusalem, The Berlin Wall, The Walls of Ston in Croatia, The Vietnam Memorial in Washington, Sacsayhuaman in Peru, The Walls of Troy in Turkey, Chewing Gum Wall in Seattle , Great Zimbabwe Wall, The Walls of Babylon, The Israeli Bank Barrier Wall, Roman Walls of Lugo, Kremlin Wall, The Green Monster in Fenway Park, The US-Mexico Wall present and proposed. There are a lot more listed on the Internet.
But the wall of note for me at the moment is the Accounting Office Wall at SLMI in Madison, GA. Brian designed the wall, constructed the wall, sheet-rocked and mudded the wall, made provision for a door and window and made the baseboard for both sides of the wall. I was the lumper, grunt, helper and designated painter for the wall. I mentioned the paint issue in a prior blog, and by the time the wall project was in it's final gasp, we had patched (Brain) and painted (me) the entire Accounting Office, moved furniture, file cabinets and shelving, made a two-shelf bookcase which is stained and polyurethaned, made and painted a work surface to cover the safe and an open area beside it, hung pictures, new shelves, and replaced and rerouted phone, Internet and printer cables.
When Nehemiah rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem, it took a lot of people, there was a lot of opposition and in just over 50 days the wall and gates were completed. Nehemiah even wrote a book about the project and that book is one of the 66 books in the Bible. Our Wall (15 feet in length) and the attendant project won't make the list of great walls or major construction projects, but it has two blog postings to memorialize it, and in my mind is right up there with the Great Passion Play Stucco Wall and Marketplace Project now completed in Eureka Springs, AR.
The work goes on and I am thankful to be part of it. More "walls" certain to follow.

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