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A Cup of Cold Water

Episodes

Jan. 22, 2026

54 - Winter Blessing

Can you enjoy hunkering down? Are you harnessing this precious inward time? Are you seizing the blessing of this fleeting season? 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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Jan. 15, 2026

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle...

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Jan. 8, 2026

52 - Measuring by Degrees

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

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Jan. 1, 2026

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

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Dec. 25, 2025

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? 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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Dec. 18, 2025

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

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Dec. 11, 2025

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

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Dec. 4, 2025

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

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Nov. 27, 2025

46 - Psalm of Thanksgiving and Praise

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

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Nov. 20, 2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog...

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Nov. 13, 2025

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

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Nov. 6, 2025

43 - Bonding and Balance

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

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Oct. 30, 2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com A…

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Oct. 23, 2025

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! Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger...

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Oct. 16, 2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog…

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Oct. 9, 2025

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? 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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Oct. 2, 2025

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

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Sept. 25, 2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCast…

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Sept. 18, 2025

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

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Sept. 11, 2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Artist websit…

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Sept. 4, 2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritua...

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Aug. 28, 2025

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. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger. Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.com Ar…

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Aug. 21, 2025

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? Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spirit...

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Aug. 14, 2025

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 minor false beliefs? Abolishing these irritating wrong beliefs is very benef…

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