Carolyn McCully says there are appropriate levels of conversation for various types of relationships.

When you've allowed the communication, the length and depth and time of communication,

as well as the topics that you discuss and the time that you spend together,

when those things exceed the stated level of commitment,

then what you're doing is you're allowing your heart to get ahead

of the stated boundaries of where you are. So if you're a friend, don't act like a girlfriend,

and if you're a girlfriend don't act like a wife. And if you're a wife, act like that, and don't

try to be anything less. It's Wednesday, June 27th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Our guest this week is Carolyn McCulley, who's written a book called Did I Kiss Marriage?

Goodbye. The subtitle is Trusting God with a Hope Deferred.

Carolyn, thanks so much for being with us here and revive our hearts this week.

Oh, it's been fun. Thank you.

And thank you for writing this book. You've made me think. And as I was reading this book,

I was thinking about a number of women I want to share it with. Some of them are older, single women who love the Lord, but who have this deep desire

to be wives and moms. But then I also thought this is a great book for married women, too.

Just so many terrific insights in here about being a woman of God, and the issues of the heart really are so similar.

So I hope our married women will not tune out today, and maybe you have all this down.

Maybe you don't have any issues along these lines, but you probably have some friends who

could use some of this help, and I think it's good for all of us.

Now, Carolyn, you've helped us understand that Proverbs 31 is a passage that has

obvious application to women who are married, but it also has some very practical, powerful

implications for the lives of women who are not married. Let's take, for example, verses 11 and 12

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