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
54 episodes
54 - Winter Blessing
Can you enjoy hunkering down?Are you harnessing this precious inward time?Are you seizing the blessing of this fleeting season?
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Episode 54
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3:08
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?
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Episode 53
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6:02
52 - Measuring by Degrees
How do you measure what counts?Are you measuring up?Are you better than yesterday?
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Episode 52
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2:55
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?
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Episode 51
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6:26
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?
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Episode 50
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2:39
49 - God Knows What You Need
What is your right place?Who is a blessing for you to be with?What is your best employment?Who governs the combination of ideas?How are your needs met?
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Episode 49
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4:18
48 - Advent : A Puzzle of Waiting
Are you surprised by grace in all its mercy and power?Are you holding your breath this season?Are you waiting for the pieces to fall into place and for the picture to become clear?
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Episode 48
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3:26
47 - I am not the Source
What is your first thought in the morning?Do you think you are self-made?Arn't you grateful you can trust something higher and more enlightened than any of us?
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Episode 47
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6:13
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