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Only that I stood so close to the stage I could see their eyebrows rise and fall. \u201cThose two blend like flour in a cake,\u201d a man bellowed as I sipped Coca Cola from a wax paper cup. \u201cMark my word. They\u2019re gonna make it big!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was right. But this mama and daughter duo were more than their music.<\/p>\n<p>I soon learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/coping-with-illness\/guideposts-classics-naomi-judd-on-stepping-out-in-faith\/\">Naomi was a nurse<\/a>\u2014like me. Every nurse I knew was enchanted with this news. Naomi was one of us, cared passionately about the same things we did. Her eyes told of a longing for people everywhere to overcome what life had dealt them. But when she sang or spoke, it seemed to be just for me. Encouragement from a friend I\u2019d never met yet somehow knew me well.<\/p>\n<p>I needed that encouragement as I battled chronic illness. The Judds might have been performing in Kalamazoo or Phoenix, but I could slip a cassette tape into my car\u2019s stereo system and feel Naomi\u2019s heart. During my hardest days, she was a long-distance companion. As the years went on and she began to reveal her personal history, I saw that the lyrics she penned and sung were hard-won. Revealing things about herself\u2014family dysfunction, mental illness, hepatitis C\u2014was a risk, but if her challenges might help someone, she was down with it.<\/p>\n<p>My most meaningful Naomi memory arrived about ten years ago in the form of<a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/stories-of-faith-and-hope\/finding-faith-at-the-flea-market\/\"> an estate<\/a><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-86404\" alt=\"\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/naomi_judd_chair.jpg\" style=\"float:right\" width=\"230\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/stories-of-faith-and-hope\/finding-faith-at-the-flea-market\/\"> sale<\/a> at a white, two-story Ashland, Kentucky home. Naomi&#8217;s mother was moving and downsizing. It was the sale\u2019s final hours; everything was marked at 75 percent off, and a friend had told me about some wonderful, never-used bedsheets that hadn\u2019t yet sold. But it was an item upstairs\u2014in a room rumored to be Naomi\u2019s bedroom\u2014that caught my eye. There sat a forlorn oak side chair with hand carving across the back. The antiquing community knew my fondness for downtrodden chairs, so I wasn\u2019t surprised when the lady in charge whispered, \u201cNo one&#8217;s paid any attention to it, Roberta. If anyone could do something with that seat, it would be you. Five dollars and it&#8217;s yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The broken caned seat spoke to my spirit. A symbol of former-nurse Naomi and of me. Our dreams that stretched beyond nursing. I knew immediately what would be my remedy for \u201cNaomi\u2019s chair.\u201d A large piece of needlepoint that I had stashed in the back of a dresser drawer. I\u2019d worked on it\u2014its flower-garden design vibrantly splashed against a background as black as the darkest night\u2014in countless doctors\u2019 waiting rooms.<\/p>\n<p>When I\u2019d first spotted that chair, a line from<i> River of Time<\/i>, a song Naomi co-wrote, haunted me: \u201cThe future isn\u2019t what it used to be.\u201d But redemption, I was to learn, tells a different story. I think often of the hauntingly beautiful lyrics from the Judd\u2019s popular song <em>Love Can Build a<\/em><i> Bridge<\/i>: \u201cI would swim out to save you in your sea of broken dreams. When all your hopes are sinkin\u2019 let me show you what love means.\u201d Now when I look at that beautiful chair, I think about a woman who provided love, inspiration and comfort to so many\u2014especially me. Thank you, Naomi. You may never know how you saved me in my own sea of broken dreams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/coping-with-illness\/guideposts-classics-naomi-judd-on-stepping-out-in-faith\/\"><em><strong>Read how her faith helped Naomi Judd face a devastating diagnosis.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1980s I lived in the tiny town of Sweet Run, West Virginia. It\u2019s right on the border of Kentucky\u2014the intersection of struggles, stories, and songs. Judd Country. The first time I heard Naomi and Wynonna Judd was in a field somewhere near Ashland, Kentucky, the place of their roots. 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