For many Christians, there is a door between themselves and a full, life-giving relationship with Jesus Christ; it may be a door that we must choose to go through, or one which we ourselves might open to the one who knocks upon it, from without. Both images occur in the New Testament, and the means of either access — this little book contends — is prayer. A Prayer Portal aims to help the reader make this journey, providing meditations and prayers on subjects concerned with living in the world, and with the wellbeing of our own hearts. It makes much use of the teachings and writings of St. Teresa of Ávila, and several other Christian writers. Non-fiction