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
63 episodes
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?
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Episode 63
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3:05
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 ...
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Episode 62
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4:34
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?
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Episode 61
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4:39
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...
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Episode 60
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6:23
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?
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Episode 59
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4:58
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?
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Episode 58
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4:06
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?
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Episode 57
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3:25
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 ...
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Episode 56
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5:04
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?
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Episode 55
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4:20
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