Praying for Things in the Past

C s lewis argues that many of the things we ask for in prayer involve events that have already been set up in the past. A ms lewis holds that you can pray at noon for something that occurred two hours earlier, and i agree. I believe this to be no good reason for ceasing our prayers. The event certainly has been decided. In a sense, it was decided before all the worlds. But one of the things taken into account in deciding it may be this very prayer that we are now offering. Thus, shocking as it may sound, i conclude that we can become part causes of an event occurring at ten.