Ok, so I just started reading a book that insists on saying that women have a need deep inside to be rescued.  I realize that this is what society tells us, that this is what our mothers tell us, and this is what Hollywood tells us.  We are trained at such a young age that our prince will come.  We are trained that we will live happily ever after.  We don't learn that at some point we will have to fight for what we want.  We are not taught that love is hurtful and healing at the same time.  We are taught to need to be rescued.  Even in our adult lives that "need to be rescued" mentality is re-enforced by books, by movies, by friends who are all waiting for the same thing we have been trained to wait for.  We are not taught to be captivating for God, and let our prince come when he comes, but not riding on a white horse and dressed in shining armor, but a man of flesh and blood just like us.  We are raised fragile, not strong.  And so we come into adulthood with expectations about love that are unrealistic and unwholesome.  We lay the burden of our eternal happiness and fulfilment on the shoulders of the man that dares come close to filling the shoes of our prince.  Dashed are our great dreams at the first sign of humanity in the man that has decided to attempt to be the rescuer we have been yearning for since the day we first saw Cinderella. 

How does God see us?  From the day we are born we are jewels in His crown, flowers in His garden.  He created us with a longing in our hearts to find the man whose rib we can be.  Not in a fairy tale way though, but in a powerful way.  God made us to have spirits of power and not of timidity.  Sound like a pricess to you?  My favorite woman is the bible is the woman of noble character in Provers 31: 

An excellent wife, who can find?  For her worth is far above jewels.  The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.  She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.  She looks for wool and flax  and works with her hands in delight.  She is like merchant ships: she brings her food from afar.  She rises also while it is still night and gives food to her household and portions to her maidens.  She considers a field and buys it;  From her earnings she plants a vineyard.  She girds herself with strength and makes her arms strong.  She senses that her gain is good: Her lamp does not go out at night.  She stretches out her hands to the distaff and her hands grasp the spindle.  She extends her hand to the poor, and she stretches out her hands to the needy.  She is not afraid of the snow for her houseld, for all her houseld are clothed with scarlet.  She makes coverings for herself:  her clothing is fine linen and purple.  Her husband is know in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.  She makes linem garments and sells them.  And supplies belts to the tradesmen.  Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she smiles at the future.  She opens her mouth in wisdom.  and the teaching of kindess in on her tonge.  She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.  Her children rise up and bless her: her husband also, and praises her saying:  "many daughters have done nobley, but you excell them all"   Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.

This woman works hard and is strong physically and mentally.  She finds joy in her work.  She provides without complaining.  I am sure that she became this type of woman before she became a wife.  Does not sound to me like anyone told her she would be rescued and wisked away one day to live happily into eternity.    There is strength in a quiet and gentle spirit.  I have a son, and so I don't know what kind of legacy I would leave for my daughter, but I know that I will teach my son to honor all women, and especially the one that has already been rescued by God and who will find delight in being the woman of noble character.