Christ is the Alpha of our prayers (Hymn 763)

Verse 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. Verse 2: Christ is the Omega of prayer, The Father's great Amen That rounds our halting periods To sense beyond our ken. Verse 3: But in the little space between He lets us make the links, And with our slow and stammering speech Interpret what He thinks. Verse 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. Verse 5: Thou great Beginning of that Word We cannot speak or spell, Of the short syllable we lisp Be Thou the End as well!