How do we pray for the world? How can intercessory prayer become more than a formal episode in corporate worship, or a list of names in a newsletter? How do Christians develop the qualities they need if they are to pray to God from within the mind of Christ? And what is the cost, when that prayer is also deeply rooted in the realities of the world?In Trees of Life, Una Kroll offers the fruits of a lifetime's experience of intercessory prayer. Doctor, contemplative, grandmother and priest, she speaks to people who come to Christ with concerns which they want to lay before him. Here, Intercession takes the Christian disciple to the heart of Christ's cosmic work on the cross and unites his suffering to ours, the world's suffering to his.Thoughts about trees have woven themselves into her own journey. They are real trees, mythical trees, and the trees which, in the Judaeo-Christian Scriptures, carry the symbolism of life and death, of good and evil. Una Kroll relates her own story to these 'trees of life', to the word of God in the Bible, and to the teachings of the Christian Church. These reflections are followed by practical suggestions not only for intercessors, but for those who accompany others on their journeys as 'soul friend', spiritual directors and companions.