BN: Really, I’m not mechanical-minded either. When you said that, boy, I snapped. I could sing and carry on, but I’m not that. So it finally came to me, I’m supposed to sing, but I had nowhere to sing. Church was a small church. I asked for a scholarship and they couldn’t do it. And I understood that. And somehow, believe it or not, as I live and breathe, God opened the door into my aunt’s lounge. My daddy’s sister built a lounge one quarter mile from his church. She called–
RR: Did that cause some problems in the family?
BN: Oh, help me Jesus. Did that cause problems! But I went down there because she asked me to come sing “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.” Because when I was a little boy about 13 my family was on the Grand Ole Opry and we were called the Nash Family Trio, and we had a big record contract with Columbia and everything. So I went down and sang and it just kind of caught on and the people started crying and saying, “Well, would you sing Amazing Grace?” I said, “Well, sure.” “And will you sing this and will you sing that?” And I was singing everything they asked. And then, you know, there’s a few songs, I believe God is love and I think that when a guy writes a song to his wife who he loves very dearly or his child who he loves dear, it all comes from God. It’s a talent that’s given. And I bled over into a few songs like that, be that as it may. So it kind of went from there and I worked my way through college doing that. And I can’t say truthfully that I always said the name of Jesus when I sang because I kind of got away. Yes, I did. And it took me a long time. And I met my wife Kim. She’s much older than me, as you can tell. And–as things evolved, we’re so thankful and I want to tell this publicly to Pastor John Osteen because he read our spirit and he knew the intent of our heart. And our little boy had leukemia. My wife might want to tell you how he was miraculously healed.
RR: I wish you would, Kim, because I know a little bit of that story. I’ve heard through Lakewood International Church. Would you tell the story about, is it when he was two, when he was two?
KN: I love to tell that story. Yes, he was just barely two. And all of a sudden he started getting infections that was just, couldn’t seem to get him over with, you know. And it was about one month that all this went on and we finally took him to a hematologist. Our doctor recommended to do that. And when we went to the hematologist he said, “He has some very suspicious cells.” And so we went straight from there to the hospital. And at the time I was five months along with other one too, so I was saying, “God, help me with this baby too.”