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
29 episodes
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
14-Resurrection a Reminder of Hope and Renewal
What is the meaning of Easter?I used to think it was about chocolate bunnies and jelly beans.In this episode I share what I've learned that is far more encouraging.
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Episode 14
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7:55
13 – Discipline
How do you define discipline?Is discipline your friend, or something you chafe against?How can a good definition of discipline empower you? Can you use a better sense of discipline to manage yourself better?...
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Episode 13
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3:05
12 – Silence Your Inner Critic
Are you critical of yourself?Is your inner critic bullying you?How can you control all that negative chatter in your head?
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Episode 12
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7:31
11 – Not Disconnected
Do you feel isolated and alone?Do you feel left out or unimportant?This short poem shares a couple metaphors to help you to realize how included and integral you are.
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Episode 11
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2:31
10 – Joy Is an Act of Resistance
Is error impersonating veracity? Are you standing aghast? Or are you amplifying good instead?This poem considers what is the most effective form of resistance.
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Episode 10
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4:17
9 – How to Overcome Regret
Do you know how to overcome regret and let it go?Can you forgive yourself that you don't have a perfect past?
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Episode 9
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6:48
8 – Live Larger
Are you wondering why you are so uninspired?Slip out of your anxious smallness and live larger.
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Episode 8
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4:08
7 – Freedom from Yourself
Does how you identify yourself make you happy?Are you living in the present? Or are you fearful about the future, or living in the past? Does the future or past keep you from being all you can be right now?Listen now t...
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Episode 7
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7:28