Imessage not working on my mac

It works fine on my phone but not on my macbook air. I am able to type in the text box, but when i click send, no bubble appears. It is unable to send. My entire chat history is also cleared when I didn't choose to clear it. It was working fine last night, but when I woke up this morning to use it, it didn't work. Not sure what could have happened when I was asleep....I have tried everything from turning off flash, singing out of imessage and apple account on both my mac and iphone and nothing works. My phone number and email address are both enabled on my mac and phone. Please help! Not sure what is going on. Even ran a diagnostic test and nothing came up... Thanks!

Do a backup.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.iChat.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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