In the spring of A.D. 2000 (Year 5760), two eight-year-old girls sit on the curb of their quiet Texas cul-de-sac, their friendship suddenly forbidden. Mary is Catholic. Leah is Jewish. Both are heartbroken-and determined.
What begins as tears on the pavement becomes a secret classroom of faith, where two children teach each other what their parents fear they'll forget: hope, courage, and the power of light that never goes out.
Through seasons of candles, stars, palms, and prayers, they discover that love has many languages-and that light, no matter where it shines from, always finds a way to cross the street.
When the world witnesses Pope John Paul II place his prayer for forgiveness into the Western Wall, two families half a world away begin to glimpse the same reconciliation glowing between their own windows.
Poignant, lyrical, and filled with warmth, Light from Different Windows is a story about friendship stronger than fear, faith deeper than difference, and the holy light that unites us all.
