763--Christ is the Alpha of our prayers;

Christ is the Alpha of our prayers;

763

	1.	Christ is the Alpha of our prayers;
		We know not how to pray
		Save as His Spirit in our hearts
		Shall teach us what to say.
	2.	Christ is the Omega of our prayer,
		The Father's great Amen
		That rounds our halting periods
		To sense beyond our ken.
	3.	But in the little space between,
		He let us make the links,
		And with our slow and stammering
		speech
		Interpret what He thinks.
	4.	O First and Last, take Thou the prayers
		Of every trusting soul,
		And weld them to Thine own desire
		To make a perfect whole.
	5.	Thou great Beginning of that Word
		We cannot speak or spell,
		Of the short syllable we lisp
		Be Thou the End as well!