For many years, author Autumn Carpentier has lived by the motto: Make the best of the worst. In Walking on Water, she tells how she has tried to fulfill that mantra while journeying through a host of painful experiences.

Her story spans a lifetime of events from early childhood to adulthood and shows how the unconditional love of God and His unwavering grace kept Carpentier from sinking into an abyss. She shares a host of heartbreaking moments that she had to overcome, including being uprooted from her family at an early age, surviving cancer, mourning the deaths of two...