Godless times these may be but - Calloo! Callay! - truly, the daughter of God walks among us and that daughter is Geri Halliwell.
A truly inspiring story has come to our heathen hands, courtesy of that New Testament of our times, the Daily Mirror. As part of this scripture's "Best for Real Life" series (nope, nor me), reporter Kate Jackson tells the moving tale of 14 year old Jessica Knight who was in a coma. After six days of no change in their daughter's welfare her parents were beginning to lose hope when, like a shaft of light bursting through the dormant clouds, Geri Halliwell walked into the hospital room. "'You just don't expect to be sitting in a hospital and for Geri Halliwell to walk in,'" says Jessica's mother, Jill. Actually, some of us live in just that expectation but we get used to the disappointment. Anyway, our Ger decided the best thing to do was to belt out a couple of lines of her songs (any jokes about her taking advantage of a captive audience are obviously tasteless and unnecessary. And the fact that Jill doesn't seem to be able to remember what the songs were should not be seen as a slur on the quality of the material in any way, whatsoever.)
"'Geri sang a couple of lines of one of their songs and Jessica started moving her arms and legs. It was just so funny seeing her arms move to Geri's singing," says Jill. "Move to" or "try to run away from"? Who knows, really? The happy ending is that Jessica has since woken up entirely from her coma and now we know that Geri Halliwell is a modern-day Jesus. Winners, surely, all round.
