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Boyhood: The Moments Seize Us (James 4:14)

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Filmed over twelve years with the same actors, Boyhood captures what no other film has: actual aging, actual growth, actual time passing. We watch Mason grow from six to eighteen, and we cannot help but feel our own years slipping by. James asks: What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. The film's power is not in plot but in observation—birthdays, graduations, ordinary dinners that somehow become the substance of a life. Mason's mother weeps at his departure: I thought there would be more. Every parent recognizes that grief. Time moves only forward. We cannot hold it; we can only be present while it passes.

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Scripture References

James 4:14Psalm 90:12Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

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