Each of us has an idea of what it means to be a woman, but we may not have gotten those ideas from the same source.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Where are you getting your ideas of womanhood?

Who shaped your standard?

Was it shaped by the world or has been shaped by the Word of God?

This is Revive Our Hearts for Wednesday, February 14th.

Happy Valentine's Day.

Who's the biggest influence on your behavior and attitudes as a woman?

Maybe your ideas are being shaped in ways you don't even recognize.

And it's a good time to stop and think through what femininity really means.

Here's Nancy to help, continuing in a series called The Countercultural Woman.

Well, today we come to that portion of Proverbs 31 that makes most women a little nervous.

I was reading an article on Proverbs 31, and this writer said, does the Proverbs 31 woman have a name?

I vote for,

Mrs. Get on your nerves. Or Mrs. I have no friends because I'm so perfect. And this woman went on that the article was called Not Her Again. She went on to tell why it was that she feels so

intimidated by this Proverbs 31 woman.

And then Jill Briscoe writes in her book, Queen of Hearts,

the Proverbs 31 woman has long stood as the Statue of Liberty

at the harbor of the city of womanhood, welcoming all who

flee from being anything less than perfect.

But what if I have runs in my stocking? I'm sure they were all right when I left home.

What if I consistently lose one of my husband's socks in the washing machine? And I regularly

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