1987

August 1987

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  • “The Success of My Brethren”

    Glenn L. Pace

  • To Each Is Given

    Tawnya Warnick

  • The 1987 New Era Contest Winners: Portraits of Ourselves

  • “Go Ye into All the World”

    Stephen P. Schank

  • The Water Bucket

    Sue Draper

  • Pure Snow and Crystal Tears

    Julie Standage

  • Selected Photography, Art, and Poetry: Portraits of Ourselves

    • Noon Hour Memorial for Edward

      Nani Lii S. Furse

    • Speed of Man

      Rex Strother

    • Nephi’s Prayer on the Eve of Christ’s Birth (See 3 Ne. 1:10–15.)

      Nani Lii S. Furse

    • February Solstice

      Nani Lii S. Furse

    • Just a Hill

      Carl Houghton

    • The Suburban Woods

      Carl Houghton

    • On the Beach

      Rex Strother

    • Mozart’s Fingers

      Casualene Richardson

    • Poem 1 by Hubbard

      Sean Hubbard

    • Windblown

      Wendy Wilhite

    • The Answer

      Debra Lyn Menssen

    • Mirror

      Laurie D. Smith

    • Pool of the Sky

      Casualene Richardson

    • grandma’s attic

      Katherine Carlisle

    • Aftermath (1+1)

      J. Clark Farmer

    • Poem 2 by Hubbard

      Sean Hubbard

  • What It Takes

    Lisa A. Johnson

  • Too Many Cooks Don’t Spoil the Broth

    Anne Bradshaw

  • One Who Did

    Barbara Merrell

  • FYI: For Your Information

  • How Does a Poem Mean?

    John Ciardi

  • It Is with Christ

    Rebecca Woodworth

Mirror
August 1987


“Mirror,” New Era, Aug. 1987, 26

Mirror

by Laurie D. Smith

I tire of my face and

my faults

and my unsteady

faith in myself.

Let me look in the mirror

the Lord would make,

to know myself not in

the insecurity

of here and now

but in the strength of

someday

that reaches to eternity

and shows me as the

daughter that I am.