My Life as a Furry Red Monster

I am a little fanatic about Muppet related stuff.

But here is one book that has shot to the top of my reading list:

My Life as a Furry Red Monster – by Kevin Clash who is Elmo’s performer. At the book site there is a short excerpt from the book, here is a part 825 mg augmentin from the end of it:

…Steve Whitmire was fielding a question about the responsibility he felt in taking over as Kermit after Jim Henson died, so I don’t think too many people heard her. I did, but I didn’t want to interrupt Steve’s response.

“Hi, Elmo,” she repeated. “I love you.”

This time her voice was louder. I couldn’t let Elmo ignore her, so I had him wave, but I knew that wouldn’t hold her. I was dying to get Elmo over to her. By this time, the folks in the front rows who’d seen and heard her started murmuring, and Steve and everyone else onstage were looking at the little girl. I went to the edge of the stage. Elmo bent over and hugged her and said, “Hello. Elmo loves you, too.” He put his arms around her and hugged and kissed her. That girl’s smile lit up the entire darkened portion of the auditorium. She hugged him back and they said their good-byes before she gleefully ran back to her mother.

The audience burst into applause. This little girl could not come to an event where her friend was and not say hello to him. She had to connect with him and tell him that she loved him. All the rest, the reminiscences and the revelations about new developments, didn’t matter to her. After that exchange with the child, that stuff seemed to matter a little less to those of us onstage and in the audience, too. That’s the power of giving and receiving love.

You can read the entire excerpt from the new book here:
http://www.randomhouse.com/broadway/furryredmonster/excerpt.html

It’s just simply a powerful insight into Kevin’s world.

How do we as the church connect with children as powerfully as that?