A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement
A Cup of Cold Water is a 5 minute podcast that will nourish and refresh you each week with wisdom poetry, inspirational essays, life lessons, sage advice, and spiritual encouragement. Polly Castor, your host, is an artist, poet, and spiritual healer.
Episodes
79 episodes
79 - The Ingratitude of Barren Lives
Are you happy, active, and engaged with life?Are you grateful and seizing the most of your opportunities?Do you have the retirement blues?Are you bored?Do you need ideas for how to full your time?
78 - Hydrangea Resiliance
Do you let things beyond you wipe you out?Do you find it hard to recover when you feel thwarted or defeated?Are you gracious about letting go of past troubles?Do you willingly give each day a fresh new chance?
77 - Compassion
What is compassion?Where does compassion come from?Is it compassion difficult?What are the benefits of compassion?How does it feel to be compassionate?
76 - Summer Solstice
Do you feel the shift into summer with the longer light fulled days and balmy temperatures?Do you feel the same about this season as you did as a child?What epitomizes the freedom and possibility of being authentic to you?
75 - Out on a Limb into the Next Fifteen Feet
Do you have the courage to do what is right for you?Do you feel like you are going further and further out on a limb?Can you trust the process?How confident are you in the unknown?Where does your security come from?
74 - Receiving
Are you receiving infinite, impartial supply?Do you have everything you need?Are you asking for more when you have not utilized what you already have?What are you open to?
73 - Garbage Removal
Do you have garbage that needs removing?How does it get taken away?How does it get eliminated?
72 - Indifference the Opposite of Love
What happens when you don't care?Why are you indifferent? How does the indifference of others make you feel?Are you taking personal responsibility for your choices in relation to the whole?Can love turn indiffer...
71 - Audition Your Thoughts
Do you believe all your thoughts?Do you originate your thoughts?Are you the author of what you think?Are you in control of your thoughts?Are you sifting out undesirable suggestions?Are you fostering and promot...
70 - How to Help Heal Dark Times
How to we love those who seem so violent, hateful and destructive?How can you see them as God's innocent children?What do you do or think about them in these dark times?
69 - Being a Parent of Adult Children
What is your role with your adult children?Is it your job to advise them?Who is in charge of what they should modify?What would your kids want you to do now that they are all grown up?How can you best think of them?
68 - Are You Using What You Already Know?
Do you collect ideas and information without doing anything with it?Do you realize getting inspiration is not an end in itself?What good are intentions without action?Are you using what you already have?
67 - Casting Down Imaginations
What are you envisioning? Success or failure?Is imagination good or bad?Is what you are imagining productive or detrimental?
66 - Spring Morning After Rain
Do you feel like a watered garden?Does your soul feel moist, nourished, and ready to grow?Do you feel deeply cared for?Are your needs fulfilled, nurtured, and hydrated with living water?
65 - A New Definition of Trauma
Can you relate to having been traumatized?Have your needs sometimes not been met humanly?Is all trauma malicious?Does God heal trauma?
64 - What Cross Will We Hang From?
Is the world already saved or do we have a part to play in it?What will avert mass destruction?Should we just allow unGodlike forces to kill all that is good?Why do we not work harder against mass destruction?How do ...
63- Constraints are a Catalyst for Creativity
Do endless possibilities bewilder you?Do you chafe at restrictions?What can you do within the constraints you are faced with?
62 - A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Are you a champion of healing and helping, civility and respect?How do I love radically enough to stop racism, theocracy, elitism, and chauvinism?How do I support women and the marginalized?I follow a Jesus that let others ...
61 - Use What You Already Know
Is doing more potent than knowing more or obtaining more?Is inspiration an end in itself?Are you always scrambling after new information, a different opportunity, or change for the sake of change?
60 - Beyond Selfie Culture to a More Balanced Self-expression
Are you looking for external validation?Have you learned the freedom of only looking for internal validation?Have you found your unique and precious identity within?Conformity to someone else's ideal should never be the goa...
59 - Call to Action
Are you just a spectator in your life?What are you becoming?Are you born to bless and give graciously to others?Are you loitering on the fringes of life?
58 - More Than the Slightest Ways
What are some other ways to pray besides thoughts and words?Do you pray with your deeds and your outlook?How about putting prayer in action?
57 - Reframe that Broken Heart
Are you broken hearted?Do you think you are to carry a load regarding their actions?How can you care for yourself better?Can you reframe how you identify your heart?