[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 189 (Wednesday, November 29, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S17699]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, made the following announcement 
and offered prayer:
  The Senate of the United States is a family. We care for each other, 
rejoice with each other, and suffer with each other. This morning, I 
announce to you that the former Chaplain, Dr. Richard Halverson, died 
last night. No person in recent history has done more to enable the 
Senate to be a family of caring people who support and encourage each 
other than Dr. Halverson.
  Let us pray: Blessed living Holy God, Sovereign of this Nation and 
this Senate, we thank You for the way that You enrich our lives by the 
gift of persons who care. We praise You for the life of Richard 
Halverson, for 14 years the Chaplain of this Senate. We praise You for 
his integrity rooted in his intimate relationship with You that 
radiated upon his face and was communicated by his countenance. We 
thank You for the profound way that he cared for all of us and 
established deep relationships. He introduced people to You and helped 
them to grow as persons.
  We bless and praise You now, Lord, as You are here with comfort and 
encouragement for us. You are with his wife, Doris, his sons, Chris and 
Steve, and his daughter, Debbie. Put Your arms of love around them, 
giving them hope.
  Lord, we thank You this morning for the assurance that this life is 
but a small part of the whole of eternity and that death is only a 
transition in the midst of living for a man like Richard Halverson.
  And so we thank You for him and praise You for Your enrichment of our 
lives through him. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Who has defeated the 
power of death and reigns forever. Amen.

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