The final week in Nehemiah, the wall finished and the watch set — paired with a baptism testimony from someone making a public commitment that morning.
Nehemiah 6 and four invitations to come down to the plain of Ono. Responsibility read as response-ability: the ability to choose your response.
Nehemiah refuses the governor's food allowance out of reverence for God, while others lorded it over the people — the enemy within being easier to miss than the one outside.
Half the workers held spears while the other half built. Rubble and rabble together, and the question of what you are really rehearsing when you lie awake.
Sanballat, Tobiah and Geshem mock the work as soon as it starts. Know your enemy — opposition arrives precisely when God's work does.
Nehemiah surveys the ruins by night before telling anyone what he intends. On gates as the places where what enters a life is decided.