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

What is your role with your adult children?Is it your job to advise them?Who is in charge of what they should modify?What would your kids want you to do now that they are all grown up?How can you best think of them?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Do you collect ideas and information without doing anything with it?Do you realize getting inspiration is not an end in itself?What good are intentions without action?Are you using what you already have?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

What are you envisioning? Success or failure?Is imagination good or bad?Is what you are imagining productive or detrimental?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Do you feel like a watered garden?Does your soul feel moist, nourished, and ready to grow?Do you feel deeply cared for?Are your needs fulfilled, nurtured, and hydrated with living water?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Can you relate to having been traumatized?Have your needs sometimes not been met humanly?Is all trauma malicious?Does God heal trauma?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Is the world already saved or do we have a part to play in it?What will avert mass destruction?Should we just allow unGodlike forces to kill all that is good?Why do we not work harder against mass destruction?How do we bring peace on earth?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Do endless possibilities bewilder you?Do you chafe at restrictions?What can you do within the constraints you are faced with?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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 kill him, rather than ever be an aggressor. Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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

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 goal.Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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

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

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

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 asking?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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

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

Have you mastered a standard morning routine?Have you scheduled in the blessing of a stable baseline with which to start your day?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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

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 something you are unsure about takes way less energy than having anxiety about it?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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

Aren't peonies wonderful?I just love their open armed generosity, exquisite fragrance, and humble flamboyance.Don't you want to be like one?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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

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