Retiring Retirement
A Matchless Mentor This is the first in a two-part series.
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atchless Stove and Chimney founder Tim Madden is as comfortable mentoring employees in Glenmont as he is working with fathers and mothers from around the world at a ministry center in Hawaii that prepares families for short and long-term missions. The 66-year-old doesn’t lecture from some six-point strategy on leadership or from the pretense of being older and wiser. Instead, he has learned to lead from following. “God is sovereign, and if I follow him this moment,” Madden said, “he will lead me down the path he wants us to go.” As a senior, he still pays
close attention to all of those daily nudges that direct his pilgrimage, which is more like a marathon than a sprint – an appropriate simile since he was sixty when he first participated in an Ironman triathlon. [But more on that in Part II.]
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them talk about shooting a gun or assembling a Lego kit, I just love to hear the words roll off “God gives manna one day their lips, and I love to talk with at a time,” he said, referring to them and to have an interacthe biblical account of the bread tion with them. That’s all God’s from heaven. “I’m comlooking for with me. I can’t mitted to this hope till build anything in this world my last breadth.” that He needs. But relationships by Tim counters are forever, and these children Along the way, life’s uncertainties are going to live forever, and his marriage to to some degree, I’ll have some with the timeWanda has seen effect on that, and that’s sobertested practices all of the joys and ing. God enjoys being with me of journaling and sorrows through the way I enjoy being with my prayer, and those five decades of matgrandchildren.” daily times seem to rimony. They’ve raised reflect his role as a father To Tim’s way of thinking, a six children and enjoy and and granddad. influence 24 grandchildren, lot of life boils down to hanging have built a respected business, out, listening to and following “Grandparents don’t need and have ministered in seven the “Matchless Mentor.” anything from their grandcountries while taking on leader- children,” he said. “I just want Robert J. LaCosta’s daily blog ship roles at local churches. appears at robertlacosta.com and to hear them say what they’re his books are on Amazon and at thinking. Whether they’re three All of the very highs and lows local bookstores. years old or 13 or 20 to hear of this amazing progression
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