It was the early 1980s when a young man named Terry Fox had a dream. It was to run across Canada coast-to-coast from the Atlantic to the Pacific. And it sure wasn't going to be a summer picnic.
He was a man with a very strong determination. It would inspire a younger generation.
He was to start in the Atlantic Ocean on the East Coast of Canada and go all the way to the Pacific. He would run 40 km every day.
His stump would bleed, but he wouldn't give up.
Day after day, mile after mile he pushed himself to the limit until in Thunder Bay he began to get sick.
He had to stop his marathon of hope.
We prayed for Terry but the news wasn't good. He was getting sicker by the day.
It was sad for all of us, the man with a dream passed away. But his spirit lives on. I think of the song, Fox on The Run. His dream still lives on, for more than 30 years and still going strong. Bless this spirit.
Ronald Prasloski,
Prince George
