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
46 episodes
46 - Psalm of Thanksgiving and Praise
Are you grateful for God?For hands and eyes, for sun and sea?I'm grateful for you!
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Episode 46
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3:51
Friendship as Witness
Are you grateful for your friendships?Do you invest in your friends and really witness to who they are?Do your friends make you feel seen?
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Episode 45
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3:31
44 – Quieting Mental Chatter
Do you have mental chatter going on all the time?Do you want a quieter thought?Do you need a few pointers on how to bring stillness to the internal noise?
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Episode 44
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9:20
43 - Bonding and Balance
How do you gain stability?What brings you balance?How do you find your completeness?
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Episode 43
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3:01
A God I Can Believe In
Are you an atheist? Do you reject concepts of God?Or do you have a God you believe in?What is God but your estimation of what is supreme and ultimate.How did you arrive at your concept of God?
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Episode 42
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7:18
41 – Half Past October
Are you appreciate every season of the year?Do you dread winter? Are you noticing what is special around you right now?Let's be mindful of all the good present!
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Episode 41
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2:55
40 - I Don't Believe in Drudgery
Just because your hands are in the dish water does your mind need to be?Do you choose to let things be dull, drab, or boring?Are you trudging and toiling up a mountain of chores?Do you let joy take over instead?
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Episode 40
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3:07
39 - Can We?
Can we throw inertia off?Can we figure out what we want?Can we chunk it down and start?Can we get moving towards it?
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Episode 39
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4:17
38 – Ambition vs. Dominion
Do you think ambition is a good thing?Is there a better way to accomplish success?Was Jesus ambitious?What can pursuing dominion do for you?What can a Godlike outlook do for you?
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Episode 38
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5:03
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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