It doesn’t take an online bachelor degree to figure out that even this last blast of posts doesn’t adequately cover all the good stuff in this week’s Torah portion. There’s a wealth of material to mine; and that’s not always true of each and every Torah portion… some are quite thin.

Still, it would be easy to write four or five complete commentaries with this much material to work with as a starting point. At least. One thing about God’s Word – other than he’s Yeshua – is that he never holds back or disappoints; even the dryer portions have some redeeming qualities to them, chunks that allow you to find something to teach about.

Still, rare is the portion that is as blessed with so many teachable passages! Go God!

If anyone doubted the extent of Moses’ intimacy with God, it is put to rest in this week’s Torah portion. In response to the complaining of Aaron and Miriam, the L-RD declares Moses the most humble man who had ever lived, the sole faithful servant in all His house, and even says words to the effect that “I appear to prophets” in glimpses and riddles, but that Moses “knows my form; I speak to him clearly and without riddles.”

That’s an amazing level of intimacy between the L-RD and Moses, right there. To paraphrase Peter, Moses “was a man, just like you and me.” He was an ordinary man in the sense of being human and fallen, but extraordinary in his level of obedience to the L-RD.

Most of us like to imagine intimacy with God any time we pray for longer than 10 minutes; that’s not real intimacy with God, however. Real intimacy is having God speak to you directly in this way, to not have to have the barrier of riddles and obscurity clouding communication.

Who wouldn’t want that with the L-RD?

Umm… apparently, everyone at the mountain of the L-RD when the commands were given; God stated His desire to speak to us all directly, yet after our very first taste of that, we opted for Moses as mediator rather than hearing from God directly. That’s like exchanging a steak dinner for fat burners that really work.

I’ve had a chance to read the commentary our Torah commentator this Shabbat, Tom, will be giving and it’s quite an impressive bit of work. Picking up a cue from the first could verses, he builds an entire commentary around the few comments made in the portion about the temple menorah.

It’s amazing how much he found in those couple verses or so; tying it in so neatly to Messiah Yeshua was also a pleasant accomplishment. I’m certainly looking forward to hearing it delivered this Shabbat.

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Moses probably didn’t need a dehumidifier during all those years wandering the desert, but a beautiful picture of Israel following the L-RD’s commands is presented in this week’s parashah. The L-RD instructs the people, through Moses, how and when they are to move camp or not.

The Torah specifically states that the people of Israel did all that the L-RD commanded in this regard; they never moved camp until the L-RD said move; they stopped when the L-RD indicated they were to stop, also. Isn’t that a picture of what God would have us all do?

We should not presume to know too much about God’s will for us, but to constantly seek Him out in prayer, moving only when he says to, and stopping once he stops. Only by strict obedience can we truly confess that we are following the L-RD’s direction with our lived.

Anything less is doing “our own thing.”

Moses may not have had a barcode scanner, but I bet he would have wished for one, had he understood the existence of such a technology. Why? Well, because when the Gentiles stir up the Israelites with grumbling about the food provided by the L-RD, provoking them to the point that they were all using selective memories of their lives as slaves to consider themselves better off than when they were in Egypt, because at least they had a variety of food to eat there, the L-RD responds to their longing for meat in a massive way.

Moses complains to the L-RD about the burdens of being responsible for so many people, and the L-RD delivers a somewhat terse response. “They want meat? Fine! They’ll have it not just for a day or two, but for a whole month, until it’s coming out their nose and they grow sick of it.”

Not exactly a happy chef, our L-RD, eh? So when Moses asks where it’s all going to come from, He sends a flood of quail into the camp for the people to harvest… and while the food was still in their mouths, a plague struck that ended the lives of many.

A message about being content with whatever the L-RD has given us could be no clearer. Am I right?

At the men’s Torah study Rob and I head up each Thursday night, we were amazed at the richness of this week’s parashah. B’ha’alotcha covers Numbers chapters 8-12, and it’s just full of riches.

One of the items that stood out (other than it did not mention anything about RV repair, LOL) is the dispute between God and Moses’ siblings. Both Aaron and Miriam complain against Moses and suggest that God has spoken to them also.

While this is true, what was the reason for their grumbling? That Moses had a Gentile bride. That was the cause of their jealousy! Yet what a suggestive picture this is of the Messiah. He, too, has taken a Gentile bride as the “grafted in” portion of the commonwealth of Israel that is called his people. What an amazing picture!

Yet, lest Gentile believers get too proud of themselves, one should note that in this parashah, it is the grumbling of the Gentile “mixed multitude” hanging out with the children of Israel that begin the grumbling against the L-RD’s manna-only diet.

And this is just scratching the surface of this rich, rich portion.

This opportunity to do a Torah commentary came up suddenly. Right through mid-week before the Shabbat, another fine Messianic Rabbi In Training (MRIT) was scheduled to do this one; he even had it written. But then he fell under the weather and needed a quick replacement. The rabbi called me Thursday night, during my men’s Torah study, to ask if I could fill in and assure me I could just use last years’ if I needed to. I told him I could probably do better than that.

I got the call around 8:30 PM Thuesday night. I didn’t get home and settled in front of my keyboard until two hours later. By 1 AM, I was done. Good thing we stayed on-topic in our Torah study; the portion was fresh in my mind and all I really needed to do was transfer some of what we had discussed into commentary form. It may not be as exciting as a quick weight loss diet, or maybe it is, but this is what I came up with. Or listen to it! Or, maybe watch it! Or watch it smaller!

Shabbat Shalom.

This week, we have a double portion for our weekly reading. It includes B’har, a Hebrew word that means, “On the mount,” as well as the portion known as “B’chukotai,” a Hebrew word that means, “In my statutes.” This double portion covers Leviticus chapter 25 through Leviticus chapter 27, and brings to an end our time in Leviticus for this Torah year.

This week’s reading covers the concept of giving even the land the people of Israel will enter, the land God has promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, a Sabbath rest.

LEVITICUS 25:2B-5
‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the L-RD. For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. But in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to the L-RD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.

Now, when many people look at this passage, they comment on how marvelous it is, how it shows God’s wisdom that modern agricultural science bears out the idea of giving the land a rest from producing crops is such a good idea; they cite the science of crop stress, soil enrichments and all these wonderful facts about farming that confirm that God knew what he was talking about in this passage.

Well, I’m not here to talk to you about how wonderful it is that God knew all this. Of course He knew it! He’s God! I’m here today to mention how sad it is that it took us well over 3,000 years of the science of man, from the time of the Exodus to figure out that God was right all along!

Of course, I think it’s also important to dig deeper than that. You see, God’s not just some cosmic farmer handing down crop management tips from his heavenly Monsanto office. God is going well beyond general truths here; he’s laying down some very special promises to the people of Israel, and they are conditional promises, based on the obedience or disobedience the people of Israel display in response to the L-RD’s commands.

You see, this is not merely about agriculture here. This is actually a teaching the L-RD is giving about how completely He wants us to observe His Sabbaths. You see, it’s not just enough for us to observe it as believers. He wants His Sabbaths to be observed by all of creation, a point he makes clear here by pointing out that even the Promised Land itself should rest; not only on the seventh day of the week, when we are to do no regular work, but in the seventh year, when we are to rest the land for an entire year.

Now, some people might read this and say, OK, we get the point. Observing the Sabbath is a good idea. Got it. But do we really have to observe a year of not working the land once every seventh year? I mean, c’mon, that would ruin the economy, people would starve.

No, they wouldn’t. God’s promises for both the seventh year Sabbath for the land, as well as the fiftieth-year Jubilee, show two important things: first, God will provide; and second, these really are special promises for His people as they enter the Promised Land, and not just good general agricultural principals that would work anywhere in the world. We read one of these promises in:

LEVITICUS 25:20-22
You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?” I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.

Now that’s a promise that definitely will not work just anywhere! I mean, go ahead and try it if you want to; find some secular farmers who don’t observe the L-RD’s commands and have them work the land six out of every seventh year, being sure not to work the land at all in the seventh year, but in no other way honoring God or observing His commands. I can almost guarantee you that their sixth-year crop will NOT be a triple harvest.

Remember, God’s promising to offer His people this triple harvest in the sixth year, before they actually observe the seventh-year agricultural Sabbath. The promise and provision will be obvious, giving His people confidence to indeed follow through with their obedience. The point is, these are special promises by the L-RD to His people, not just some guidebook to farming in Israel.

Yet there will still be doubters, people who say, “C’mon, I mean, we’re talking about dirt here. We’re supposed to let dirt rest? God can’t be serious, can He?”

Well, let’s take a look at just how serious God is about this command. We find this in:

LEVITICUS 26:33-35
I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. Then the land will enjoy its Sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the Sabbaths you lived in it.

So, what God is saying here is that while His people are certainly free to either obey His command for the agricultural Sabbath, or to disobey, there will be a penalty if they ignore this command: God will scatter his people among the surrounding nations, lay waste to all that was built there, and the land will lay desolate until all of the agricultural Sabbath years and Jubilee years they failed to observe have been fulfilled. I’d say this passage at least suggests that the L-RD takes this command many people read past quite seriously.

The parashah goes on from here to establish rules for observing the fiftieth-year Jubilee, in which those who sold property are allowed to return to it, those who are in bondage are allowed to go free, and those who are in debt are forgiven their financial burdens.

Once we enter chapter 26, however, the theme changes to the topic of obedience versus disobedience, and here is where we delve into the part of this week’s teaching that focuses on the life application aspect of these commands. Why is that important?

Well, how many here are farmers? Not many? OK, how many of you raising your hands are actually farmers in the land of Israel. Boom. Nobody left. Right?

You see, while agricultural commands are the topic, what applies to us all is our willingness to either agree with God, that His rules and instructions are right and just, and follow through with that by obeying Him – or to disagree with Him and walk in rebellion and disobedience.

We have that choice, all of us. We are free to do either and God will not step in and prevent it. However, there is a cost to disobedience, even for believers. Not just for the Jewish believers who looked forward to the promised Messiah, but for all of us looking back on the fulfillment of that Messianic promise in Messiah Yeshua.

Leviticus 26 makes it very clear where God stands. First, Hhe promises to reward the children of Israel richly if they obey Him. But then, He also outlines the penalties that will befall them, the correction they will suffer if they disobey. We read this in:

LEVITICUS 26:14-16A
“‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, then I will do this to you:

The passage then continues on to outline all the levels of punishment that the L-RD will dole out to Israel if they continue to walk in disobedience. As Rob observed in our men’s group Torah study this week, there’s an interesting parallel between these punishments, and the plagues the L-RD sent upon Egypt when Pharoah refused to fear and obey God in allowing Moses and the Israelites to leave for three days to worship God in the desert, and bury Joseph’s bones outside of the land of Egypt as he had requested.

The similarity is that God doesn’t correct or rebuke or punish all at once; it comes in waves, and between each wave, God offers a chance for repentance and a return to obedience. As each opportunity for repentance passes, the next wave of punishment gets a little more severe. Each time, this comes not because God loves dishing out punishment to His people, but as an attempt to wake them up to their rebellion and offer them a chance to return to the path of obedience.

We read this in:

LEVITICUS 26:27-28
“‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.

So you see, between each wave of punishment, God inserts and if-then statement. If you continue to disobey, here’s the next thing I’m going to have to do, and it’s harsher and more severe than the last.

What’s the solution? We read this in:

LEVITICUS 26:40-45
“‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their fathers—their treachery against me and their hostility toward me, which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees. Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the L-RD their God. But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the L-RD.’”

If we confess, if we repent, if our uncircumcised hearts are humbled, if we pay for our sins, then the L-RD will remember his covenant with us and return us to right standing before Him. Now, some people believe this is all done away with; that repentance comes one time when we surrender our lives to Yeshua, and then is completely unnecessary because we’re forgiven. But that’s not so.

For as long as there is an ability to rebel against God, for as long as we are able to choose disobedience over obedience, there is a need for repentance, humbling, and payment for sins. It is important to remember that simply saying, “I’m sorry,” isn’t true repentance. It involves turning away from the disobedience. It involves making restitution to those we’ve wronged. Those are all things we are capable of, but in our rebellion, sometimes refuse to do.

Fortunately, the one thing we can’t do on our own – to pay our owner for his loss as a result of our rebellion – and our owner is the L-RD – is a price that has already been paid for us, by the Messiah Yeshua.

May we never treat the price He paid in our place, for our disobedience, as though it came from a dollar store.

Shabbat Shalom.

Now that I have the text to my first commentary in three months up, I can let you know that you won’t need an ATV to seek out what it sounded like when I delivered it. I plan to post the MP3 audio file soon. Sometime this week.

Of course, I have a few more pressing issues to address first, like working on the video for Stan’s sermons and studies this week. But I’ll get around to editing the audio of my commentary when I can, and will upload it as per normal, once I have some free time.

There’s some video, too, though without audio, so if I can match the audio to the video, I might even post my first video podcast at some point, also.

Well, I made a successful return to Torah commentaries this Shabbat. We didn’t need any outdoor lighting since we met indoors, but hopefully what I shared was enlightening. You can now all judge for yourselves. Here’s my 2010 Tazriah-Metsora commentary.

Shabbat Shalom.

This week, we have a double portion for our parashah. It includes Tazriah, a Hebrew word that means, “She bears seed” or “She conceives,” as well as the portion known as “Metsora,” a Hebrew word that means, “Infected one,” or “diseased one.” This double portion covers Leviticus chapter 12 through Leviticus chapter 15.

Now, this week’s reading covers such topics as pregnancy and childbirth, skin diseases, bodily discharges and the laws surrounding purification from all of these afflictions. But before we delve into that, I want to share a word of encouragement from this week’s portion for a select portion of this congregation – and you’ll know who you are in just a moment.

Now, some of you might remember the 1980s. One of the big trends back then was custom T-shirt shops. You could walk in, select the size and color of T-shirt you liked best, and then select just about any kind of saying or cartoon that you wanted and it would be added to the shirt while you waited.

I’ll always remember one we got my father. It’s not a Biblical saying, but it might sound like it. The t-shirt read, “God made only a few perfect heads. All the rest, he covered with hair.”

I thought it was pretty funny back then, too. Of course, those of you who’ve known me for a few years now will testify that, as the years go on, my head’s getting a little closer to perfect all the time.

Yet the word of encouragement for those of us who are a bit closer to perfect atop our heads comes to us from:

Leviticus 13:40-41
If a man’s hair has fallen from his scalp, he is bald; but he is clean. If a man’s hair has fallen off the front part of his scalp, he is forehead-bald; but he is clean.

So, that’s good news, right? Some of us may be balding, men, but at least we’re clean! Now, joking aside, the passage does go on to say that if baldness is accompanied by sores of various kinds, it can indeed indicate ritual uncleanness. Of course, so can a whole lot of other things. And what we see in this week’s double-portion is that there is so much ritual uncleanness in the world, it’s almost impossible to avoid!

Yet it’s important to note that ritual uncleanness is not always the same as sinfulness – though, at times, it can be. For example, that which is unclean can often be remedied in this week’s parashah by simply bathing and separating oneself from the community until evening. Can water grant remission of sins? No, the Torah is clear that blood must be shed for sins to be pardoned. So if some types of uncleanness can be remedied by washing with water, they must not be sources of sin, but a simple lack of purity.

Yet even this insight misses something more important. What both of these portions talk about is what? Ceremonial uncleanness, right? As we read, for example, in:

Leviticus 12:1-4
The L-RD said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period. On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised. Then the woman must wait thirty-three days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over.

So you see, many of these purity laws have to do with one’s fitness to enter the Temple … the Tent of Meeting … and since that Temple no longer stands, it would seem many of these laws are of limited relevance and use to us today. Right?

Not so fast. Because while the laws of ritual purity were specific to Jewish people living in the Land, and relevant to entering the Temple or the Tent of Meeting, they also have a more symbolic, spiritual aspect to them.

Let’s start by looking at the word for impurity or infection. The Hebrew word for our second portion is “metsorah.” It is derived from two root words. The first, “motzi,” means “source or well-spring.” The second, “ra,” means “evil.” So the word “metsorah,” in addition to meaning “infected one” or “diseased one,” could also be said to mean “well-spring or source of evil.”

When one thinks about this, it begins to make sense. After all, on a spiritual level, what causes infection or disease in our spirit? Evil, right? Specifically, exposure to evil or a source of evil. And often, simple exposure is enough.

We see the truth in this in the story of the fall of man. What happens when Adam and Chavah are exposed to the lies of the serpent? They become infected, diseased with doubt. Doubt about what? Whether to trust in the words of the L-RD, or the words of the serpent. Exposure alone to that doubt is enough to produce what comes next: rebellion against God’s only command at that time, as they eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

In the same way, we can see how simple exposure to impurity can infect us in our daily walk, in our witness, in how we view, understand and even explain our faith in the L-RD to others.

For example, what does the Tenakh teach us about where to invest our faith and trust? We read this in:

Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the L-RD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

This is what the L-RD asks of us, right? To simply put our trust in Him, rather than our own understanding of things. We can all agree on that, right?

Yet we live in a world that is full of people who don’t do that; who put their trust in their own understanding, rather than in the L-RD. Still with me? Good.

One of the most prevalent theories out there in the world today, in the understanding of men, is the theory of evolution.

Like atmospheric yeast, it’s out there in the world, like it or not. And this idea that man was not created but evolved from lower life-forms, and all the ideas that spring forth from that core theory, such as that the earth is, as scientist Carl Sagan always said, “billions and billions of years old,” rather than nearing the end of the six thousand years of human history spoken of in the Bible, has been entrenched in public education and the public mind so firmly for so long, that the fact is that today, many believers would prefer to cast aside the first few chapters of Genesis in an attempt to lure those who view the world through evolutionary, so-called scientific eyes, than to even attempt to believe what God has revealed about the nature of His creation.

The rationalization many use is that they “don’t want a few chapters in one book of the Bible” to be a barrier to someone entering the kingdom of heaven. “It’s not important enough,” they’ll claim.

Yet, is that what we’re called to do? Are we to stake claim only in the words of the Torah that make sense to the unbelieving? Or are we to simply trust in the L-RD with all of our hearts and lean not on our own understanding?

And that’s what simple exposure can do! Simply by being in the same atmosphere as this well-spring of evil, we become infected, diseased in our own thinking. We start to change what we believe to make it easier for the unbelieving to accept, rather than simply standing firm in our trust in the L-RD… which is what the L-RD has called us to do!

This is just an example. There are many. Perhaps the well-spring of evil in your home is broadcast television, which contains so many shows that are rooted in evil and untruths that can infect you, make you impure in your simple, commanded trust in God. Perhaps for your children, it’s videogames that is the source of infection. It could be an unhealthy amount of time spent on the Internet, rather than in the Word of the L-RD.

It could even be something as simple as evil speech – known as lashon horah in Hebrew – the practice of speaking of people in a way meant to diminish them in the eyes of others, even if what you’re saying is true. If the intention is to diminish rather than to build up, it’s lashon horah and it can destroy a sense of safety and trust in a community.

Now, perhaps, we begin to see the pieces come together from what seems on the surface like a rather dry and boring pair of Torah portions. For you see, for all these detailed instructions on how to rid oneself of impurity, there is one remedy that is never recommended. Whether an impurity is a result of sin, or a simpler impurity that isn’t necessarily sin but does make you ceremonially impure – in other words, unfit to come before the L-RD – one solution that the Torah NEVER endorses is to do nothing about it!

That’s amazing to think about, isn’t it? I mean, you read about how touching a mildewed cloth makes you impure, but the solution is to wash and wait until evening, the start of a new day, and one is tempted to think: well, then that’s not sin! Why is the Torah being so nitpicky? If it’s not sin, why all the fuss over simple impurity.

Well, it’s because while God does desire for us to come to Him through Messiah Yeshua and experience His yeshua – His salvation – he isn’t done with us once the sin is dealt with. God wants us to live a life far above that minimum standard required to attain eternal residence in His kingdom! He wants us to, as he repeats throughout the Torah, including just before this week’s parashah in:

Leviticus 11:45
I am the L-RD who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God. Therefore, be holy, because I am holy.

Holiness – not just freedom from sin but freedom from all impurity – is the nature of God. To experience intimacy with God, we must strive to be like him. Not just forgiven of our sins, but pursuing holiness, which is the lack of all metsorahs – the lack of any sources or well-springs of evil in our lives.

Let us, therefore, pursue lives that are holy – free of all spiritual infection and disease – in how we live and walk through this life and live by our beliefs, our trust in our creator. Let us be holy, because the L-RD our God is holy, and may we accomplish this through our redeemer, the Messiah Yeshua.

Shabbat Shalom.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve had the opportunity to do a Torah commentary; there’s a great rotation established at Sar Shalom already, so I’ve been able to kick back and listen to the study and scholarship of others for the last few months, since Beth Yeshua closed its doors.

However, I’ve been busy working on childrens’ materials, running the camcorder and various other duties on Shabbat, so I haven’t been completely lazy, either! However, that changes this week.

Stan asked me last Shabbat to fill in for a commentator who will be unavailable this weekend when his turn comes up; so I’ve already prepared a new commentary for the double-parashah portions of Tazriah and Metsora. It’s almost completely different (expect for a couple paragraphs) from the one I did at Beth Yeshua last year.

It will be fun to offer up a Torah commentary in front of a much larger crowd; at least some of the faces will be familiar friends from Beth Yeshua!

Recording artist Katie Perry is an interesting, if somewhat tragic, figure in today’s popular culture. Best-known for her risque hits like Ur So Gay and I Kissed a Girl, Perry is thought of by many as a quite worldly figure, caught up in trading on her looks for fame.

Yet according to the biographical information on her, she is the daughter of a deeply committed Christian family – both of her parents are pastors. She was raised listening only to gospel and contemporary Christian music. Her first musical attempts were as part of just such a band.

So how did a girl raised in a way many believers would consider “with all the right influences” stray into trading on her sexuality, composing songs known for their outrageous and worldly descriptions of sinful behavior? I mean, her latest claim to fame is hawking some sort of acne serums on cable TV!

Well, who knows the specifics of her circumstances, beyond her and God? However, I’d suggest that one thing believers tend to over-focus on is the externals and not the root causes.

Katie Elizabeth Hudson (her real name) is just famous, but the same sort of thing happens to the children of many Christian parents; even more so children of those in the ministry.

I suspect part of the culprit here is the moral relativism rife in the church. If one raises their children to listen only to spiritual artists, but also preaches grace grace grace, where’s the self-discipline that will help them make the right decisions once they grow up and live on their own?

Grace must be balanced by self-discipline… a desire to live a life showing gratitude toward the creator by not making the choices of sin that cause a holy God to distance himself from us, or the narcissism to believe that it’s OK to sin today, because we can always repent tomorrow… Someday, for all of us, tomorrow never comes.

Hopefully Katie Elizabath Hudson will realize that before Katie Perry is all that remains.