NOT EVEN MALIBU LIGHTS

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

"Nothing lasts forever”—not even Malibu lights. Why am I surprised about this? It’s because I was beginning to think that Malibu lights do last forever. Really! We have had our lights for almost twenty years and they just keeping “going” and “going.” Or maybe I should say lighting and lighting.

The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against these lights but they did not fail to light. The sun bore down on them without mercy, day after day, year after year and still they gave out their tiny little lights. Nothing seemed to faze them.

Their theme must be taken from the old vacation Bible school song, “This Little Light of Mine.” “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine, this little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine all the time, all the time, let it shine.”

We have a lot of these lights in the back yard and one or two of them are beginning to fail. Oh sure, I have had to repair some of them over the years but it was never anything serious. Now, I find it easier to just buy a new unit, hook it up and let it shine rather than “fooling around” with an old one that is “at the end of the off ramp.”

“Nothing lasts forever”—not even eyes. In a few weeks they are going to “fool around” with my left eye and remove a cataract. I pray they know more about repairing eyes than I do about Malibu lights.

P.S. Before going to the hardware store I wanted to look at my old Malibu lights to get one to match. I got to fooling around with the one that wasn't working and fixed it. Ha! So I may just replace the old, oxidized, blurry, lense. That's what they are going to do with my eye.