Lisha is other-worldly. She has been homeless for 22 years, but the spiritual realm is where she dwells. She wears an ‘I Heart Jesus’ lanyard from which dangles a huge gold key that’s her ‘key to the kingdom.’ She converses with God, out loud, on practical matters. When I asked if I could draw her portrait, she immediately said, “God, what do you think about this portrait? Is this the right thing to do? You know I’m just trying to serve you.” After listening to God’s answer, she nodded at him and gladly agreed to the portrait. Her choice of the cement piece was instant; she had had a vision where her face was engraved into cement with a shining light coming through it, posed exactly the way she had seen herself in the vision. Skid Row, for her, is hell, but she is stuck here while her husband is in treatment for a stroke in the VA hospital. What’s her dream for her life? “To be used by God.”
