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
37 episodes
37 – Be Satisfied Now
Are you looking at the past with regret or wistfulness?Or are you looking at the future with longing or trepidation?Is God doing these things?How can you be satisfied now?And what is eternity anyway?
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Episode 37
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4:05
36-Noticing Good
Do you realize when notice good, you can't feel bad?The human mind can hold only one thought at a time.So how much good can you notice?Try it right now, and now, and now...
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Episode 36
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4:39
35-Treasure in Heaven
What does the sermon on the mount mean when it says lay up your treasures in heaven?What is heaven, anyway?Are answers in more or better materiality?Are harmony and bliss possible?
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Episode 35
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6:35
34-Some Questions
Asking good questions is important.Here are some to examine, think about, and answer. Consider writing out answers in a journal. Have your answers to the questions changed over time?
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Episode 34
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3:56
33 - I'm a Vehicle
I'm in service to a higher idea, that makes the plan, and does the doing.I'm open to being utilized, ready to trust the process, and function seamlessly.My engine is ready to roar into action.
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Episode 33
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2:19
32 - Circulation of Ideas
Are you experiencing the ceaseless outpouring of infinite good?Are you accessing the divine economy of liquid recycled currency?Are you enjoying the equality of demand meeting supply?
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Episode 32
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2:55
31 - Getting Rid of Bland Denials of Truth
Do you notice the fallacious claims you inadvertently give voice to?Are you aware how much you thwart yourself with mistaken assertions?Do you predict or expect error or downward spiraling?Are torn down or distracted by min...
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Episode 31
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5:50
30 – Small Talk is too Small
How do you have more meaningful conversations?What are some better questions to ask than the surface ones?Would you rather really get to know someone?Here are some ideas to get you started.
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Episode 30
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4:03
29 - Finding Margin
Do you relish the feeling of empty?Can you stop craving anything that's superfluous?Do you feel the expansive feeling of being all poured out?
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Episode 29
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2:53
28 - For Improved Relationships Shine
Let the contemplation of this metaphor free up your human relationships.Can you trust all others to God and focus on what your are about?Learn to love with a universal, noble love, connected with your source.
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Episode 28
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6:20
27 - No Agenda
Can you simply listen with no agenda?Are you flexible and content when plans change?Are you unhurried, calm, and savoring each morsel of life as it comes?
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Episode 27
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3:29
26 - Daily Routine
Have you mastered a standard morning routine?Have you scheduled in the blessing of a stable baseline with which to start your day?
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Episode 26
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4:02
25 - You Were Never Unwanted
Do you own how pivotal you are to God?Do you realize how essential, needed, and approved of you are?Do you know that you are the best part of the fiber of forever?
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Episode 25
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4:39
24 - Outsmarting Inertia and Overcoming Avoidance
Do you get frozen when you are out of your depth?Is your self talk helping you, or do you need to change your inner conversation?How do you get moving on what makes you trepidatious?Have you realized yet that actually doing...
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Episode 24
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7:37
23- Compassion Not Criticism
Do you think you are being righteous or helpful when you criticize?What would the world be like with only compassion instead of criticism?Can you see that others are dealing with more than you understand?
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Episode 23
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3:17
22 - Like a Peony
Aren't peonies wonderful?I just love their open armed generosity, exquisite fragrance, and humble flamboyance.Don't you want to be like one?
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Episode 22
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3:01
21 - Where Sheep May Safely Graze
What can we learn from sheep?How do we behave in a herd?Are we as docile, frolicking, and contemplative as sheep?Can we likewise can rely on our divine shepherd to care for us and protect us?
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Episode 21
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3:44
20-Respond Instead of React
Are you reactionary and want to know how and why to stop it?What is better than you flying off the handle?What are the blessings of responding instead of reacting?
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Episode 20
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8:17
19-The Panoply of Love
How do you protect yourself from human hatred?How do you get safe inside Love's protection?Is there an aspect of love you've let lapse that is allowing you to be vulnerable?
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Episode 19
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3:19
18- Where is Your Third Place?
Where do you go for a sense of belonging?Where do you go to engage with other people?Where do you go to know and be known?
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Episode 18
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4:32
17 - Our Mother Which Art in Heaven
Is the idea of God as Mother more accessible to you than God as Father?How does the idea of God as Mother differ from the concept and feeling of God as Father?What kind of relationship with God is most useful to you?
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Episode 17
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5:03
16-The Wisdom of Plants
What can show you how to be content with where you are?What can teach you how to pace yourself, and own your inherent fabulousness?What can tutor you to be deeply authentic?What can instruct you to be resilient and successf...
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Episode 16
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6:07
15 - Muddy
Do you feel stuck in a muddled world?Are you just barely muddling forward?It is time to wash off all that mud!Listen to my poem about getting out of the mud!
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Episode 15
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2:50