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
72 episodes
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?
56 - Tips on How to Say No to Others
How do you be nice and helpful, as well as avoid conflict, while still saying no?Is it possible to say no in ways that build bridges more than tear them down?Can you decline the task, without rejecting the person who is doing the ...
55 - Lean on the Infinite
Do you feel like you are doing today all by yourself?Have you tried leaning on the infinite?Do you have rapport with it?Are you leaning with expectancy?
54 - Winter Blessing
Can you enjoy hunkering down?Are you harnessing this precious inward time?Are you seizing the blessing of this fleeting season?
53 - Between Aspiration and Realization
Do you follow the Ten Commandments perfectly?Have you actually endeavored to reach any high goal?What does it take to realize your aspirations?
52 - Measuring by Degrees
How do you measure what counts?Are you measuring up?Are you better than yesterday?
51 - Resolutions: Up to or Out from?
Are you making New Year's resolutions?How will you keep them if you do?Is there a better way?Can an enlightened spiritual view of yourself bring about radical change?
50 - Welcome (a Christmas Poem)
Merry Christmas!What is reborn in your heart today?Who has been sent to us?Don't humble beginnings have the grandest portent?