Polly Castor

A Cup of Cold Water: Nourishing You with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Encouragement

Religion EN ↓ 78 episodes

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.

Author

Polly Castor

Category

Religion

Podcast website

www.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

53 - Between Aspiration and Realization 15.01.2026

Do you follow the Ten Commandments perfectly? Have you actually endeavored to reach any high goal? What does it take to realize your aspirations? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

52 - Measuring by Degrees 08.01.2026

How do you measure what counts? Are you measuring up? Are you better than yesterday? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

51 - Resolutions: Up to or Out from? 01.01.2026

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

50 - Welcome (a Christmas Poem) 25.12.2025

Merry Christmas! What is reborn in your heart today? Who has been sent to us? Don't humble beginnings have the grandest portent? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

49 - God Knows What You Need 18.12.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

48 - Advent : A Puzzle of Waiting 11.12.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

47 - I am not the Source 04.12.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

46 - Psalm of Thanksgiving and Praise 27.11.2025

Are you grateful for God? For hands and eyes, for sun and sea? I'm grateful for you! Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

Friendship as Witness 20.11.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

44 – Quieting Mental Chatter 13.11.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

43 - Bonding and Balance 06.11.2025

How do you gain stability? What brings you balance? How do you find your completeness? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

A God I Can Believe In 30.10.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

41 – Half Past October 23.10.2025

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! Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

40 - I Don't Believe in Drudgery 16.10.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

39 - Can We? 09.10.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

38 – Ambition vs. Dominion 02.10.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

37 – Be Satisfied Now 25.09.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

36-Noticing Good 18.09.2025

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... Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

35-Treasure in Heaven 11.09.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

34-Some Questions 04.09.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

33 - I'm a Vehicle 28.08.2025

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. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

32 - Circulation of Ideas 21.08.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

31 - Getting Rid of Bland Denials of Truth 14.08.2025

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 minor false beliefs? Abolishing these irritating wrong beliefs is very beneficial! Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCas...

30 – Small Talk is too Small 07.08.2025

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. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

29 - Finding Margin 31.07.2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist website: PollyCastorArt.com Contact her here

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