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nRetiring Retirement continued from Page 14 came to me and said, ‘They’re really excited about doing a triathlon with you.’ I told them we needed to create a team. We are called ‘On Eagle’s Wings.’ One of them is designing the logo of the gear we will wear, and we are all training as much as we can with COVID.”

With six children and 24 grandchildren, Madden feels that the gold medal of grandparenting occurs when the youngsters talk about some random subjects that surprise, delight and even concern him. He simply takes all of these things to prayer.

“My hero growing up was my grandfather,” Madden notes. “He taught me things like rewiring a lamp and how to start over if I had to. That’s an important life lesson.”

Physical training provides Madden with a body that allows him to grandfather with “street cred,” work at Matchless Stove & Chimney and think clearly.

“When we engage in activity,” he said, “the body releases growth hormones that help injured parts of the body and continued from Page 15 get home but never told her for sure he was coming. His sincere intention was to surprise her that he made it home for Christmas. When he arrived at the Galway train station, the tears, the heart pounding and to his surprise, there was his mom was waiting for him. A lovely Christmas “Going Home” present!

Red told me after he read this story that the plane trip from Germany to England was his first ever. He and his family and granddaughter (also in the military) love the story, and it is posted in his home.

Red was definitely a Veteran Next Door you would never suspect. He was a plumber in endorphins that help the brain.”

That intense part of his life is complemented and juxtaposed with rest and spiritual sabbaths.

“Instead of a cup of tea to keep me in the zone,” he said, “I might take a 20-minute nap. I get 8 hours of rest every night and take natural sleep aids. While we are sleeping, we are healing.”

Madden’s mission work with his wife, Wanda, has taken him to six countries. As a result of their tireless work, he has also used sabbaticals for extended rest every seven years and has found them to ground him in God.

He ironically gets his direction for life and particularly his senior years from the biblical invitation and warning in The Book of Isaiah: “Only in returning to me and waiting for me will you be saved; in quietness and confidence is your strength; but you’ll have none of this.”

Tim Madden is having all of this.

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Red passed away in April 2020. This is my Christmas card to his family.

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