Light from Different Windows

Light from Different Windows

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.