Allan has been gone almost sixteen months now. I sure do miss him. I wish we'd spent more time together over the years. But we lived in different states. Contact was infrequent. There are so many things I wish we had done together: camping, playing D&D, hiking the Appalachian Trail, whitewater rafting — to name just a few. I worry about the state of his mind, attitude, and spirit at the time of his death. There isn't really anything I can do about that except pray for him. I think that prayer can be effective even across temporal boundaries. In other words, in my mind there is the possibility that after-the-event prayers may possible impact the event itself, even though it occurred already in the past.
