{"id":42547,"date":"2013-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/national-get-over-it-day\/"},"modified":"2013-12-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T00:00:00","slug":"national-get-over-it-day","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/national-get-over-it-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National &#8220;Get Over It&#8221; Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letting go and moving on is a difficult, painful process. Bad relationships, bad decisions&mdash;we tend to revisit the moments when we were not-so-smart (or when others were not-so-smart), beating ourselves up for our mistakes or blaming others for the ways they&#39;ve hurt us. That&#39;s why Jeff Goldblatt started what he hopes will become a movement&mdash;&quot;Get Over It Day.&quot; The day, which was recently featured on <em class=\"citation\">Good Morning America<\/em>, is midway between Valentine&#39;s Day and April Fool&#39;s Day.<\/p>\n\n<p>The idea behind &quot;Get Over It Day&quot; is simple: all of us have something&mdash;an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend, stressful school or work-related issues, fears and insecurities, embarrassing moments, bad relationships, and so on. &quot;Get Over It Day&quot; motivates people to use sheer will-power and move on&mdash;no matter how deep the scars. Goldblatt&#39;s website even sells &quot;get over it&quot; and provdes helpful hints like, &quot;If you&#39;re not sure what you have to get over, just ask your friends what they&#39;re tired of hearing you complain about.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Possible Preaching Angles: <strong>(1) Suffering; Wounds<\/strong>&mdash;&quot;Get Over It Day&quot; sounds great on paper, but most of us need power and healing from God and others to truly heal and move on from our past wounds, failures, and regrets. <strong>(2) Comfort; Compassion<\/strong>&mdash;Fortunately, God doesn&#39;t just tell suffering people to &quot;get over it&quot; and neither should we.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[],"tax_ctp_authors":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_format":[171],"tax_ctp_illustration_types":[411],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_tags":[3524,3531,3636,3637,3648,4127,4584,4714,5091,5103,5128,5191],"tax_ctp_topics":[],"class_list":["post-42547","sermon-illustrations","type-sermon-illustrations","status-publish","hentry","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-brokenness","tax_ctp_tags-burdens","tax_ctp_tags-comfort","tax_ctp_tags-comforter","tax_ctp_tags-compassion","tax_ctp_tags-healing","tax_ctp_tags-pain","tax_ctp_tags-problems","tax_ctp_tags-struggles","tax_ctp_tags-suffering","tax_ctp_tags-tears","tax_ctp_tags-trial"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>National &quot;Get Over It&quot; Day - CT Pastors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/national-get-over-it-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National &quot;Get Over It&quot; Day - CT Pastors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Letting go and moving on is a difficult, painful process. 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