A very short boy wanted desperately to play basketball.  He even told his Dad that he wanted to become a pro when he was older.  Knowing that his son would never be able to play the game, the Dad asked the local coach if there was anything that he could recommend to make the boy taller.  “You might take him down to the museum and put him on that old torture stretch rack,” the coach said. 

Several weeks later the coach asked the father if putting the boy on the stretch rack had helped. “Well, it didn’t make him any taller,” said the Dad, “but he confessed to several things that I never knew he did.” 

We all have our dreams, don’t we? To play starting guard on the basketball team. To be the top sales person in our company. To have the nicest home in the community. To have the perfect famil…