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

Do you notice the beauty right where you are?Do you take the time to be mindful of whatever beauty is present?How much detail do you notice in the beauty you see?Does your level of noticing improve your appreciation of what is around you?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Do you know how to be a good guest?Do you understand that hosting and being a guest is a two way street?What can you do to make your visit more harmonious?Are you being considerate of your host?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Are you procrastinating?Do you walk around under a black cloud of what you have yet to do?Are you waiting for motivation or inspiration?Are things piling up and you are getting behind?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Do you do things based on what others think of you?Do their opinions matter to you too much?Who is watching you and does it matter?Is it better to align with high ideals instead?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Have you ever though about what Soul is doing?How do Soul's actions affect you?Do you feel protected, inspired, and safe tucked up under Soul's wings?If you understand better what Soul is, to you think you'd understand yourself better as Soul's reflection?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Are you caught on a downward spiraling loop of envy?Can't you always find others who have what you want, even while knowing you are better off than many?Does comparison steal your joy?What mindset will bring you peace and progress instead?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

What do you give your attention to?Is it a conscious choice or a default one?Are you outsourcing your life work?Does progress to you mean doing less and less?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 governing your own life?Or do you trust that God is in charge?Do you take on the whole burden of responsibility?Or do you think there is a larger power governing?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Are you happy, active, and engaged with life?Are you grateful and seizing the most of your opportunities?Do you have the retirement blues?Are you bored?Do you need ideas for how to full your time?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Do you let things beyond you wipe you out?Do you find it hard to recover when you feel thwarted or defeated?Are you gracious about letting go of past troubles?Do you willingly give each day a fresh new chance?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

What is compassion?Where does compassion come from?Is it compassion difficult?What are the benefits of compassion?How does it feel to be compassionate?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Do you feel the shift into summer with the longer light fulled days and balmy temperatures?Do you feel the same about this season as you did as a child?What epitomizes the freedom and possibility of being authentic to you?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Do you have the courage to do what is right for you?Do you feel like you are going further and further out on a limb?Can you trust the process?How confident are you in the unknown?Where does your security come from?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Are you receiving infinite, impartial supply?Do you have everything you need?Are you asking for more when you have not utilized what you already have?What are you open to?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Do you have garbage that needs removing?How does it get taken away?How does it get eliminated?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

What happens when you don't care?Why are you indifferent? How does the indifference of others make you feel?Are you taking personal responsibility for your choices in relation to the whole?Can love turn indifference into hope and positive action?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

Do you believe all your thoughts?Do you originate your thoughts?Are you the author of what you think?Are you in control of your thoughts?Are you sifting out undesirable suggestions?Are you fostering and promoting your own mental health?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

How to we love those who seem so violent, hateful and destructive?How can you see them as God's innocent children?What do you do or think about them in these dark times?Polly Castor is an artist, poet, spiritual healer, and blogger.Daily Lifestyle Blog: PollyCastor.comArtist website: PollyCastorArt.comContact her here

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