Monica learns to overcome her fear of water when she moves next door to Angela Evans, an avid boater with a secretive past.  Years ago during college, she supported herself as a call girl.  Now that her husband Carter is running for the U.S. Senate, she is being blackmailed by Marshall, her former pimp.

Monica convinces Angela to stand up to him, but learns that the ruthless man had taken photographs of her in compromising positions.  Rather than tell Carter the truth, she attempts suicide by intentionally sinking her boat in the middle of the lake.  Adam, the Angel of Death, cautions Monica not to violate Angela’s free will by rescuing her.  The resourceful angel shows the woman how her suicide would affect her loved ones, and she chooses to live.

Revealing herself after the rescue, Monica admits overcoming her own fear of water when she saw Angela about to drown and encourages her to return home and confide in Carter.  Together, the Evans decide to hold a press conference regarding Angela’s past, freeing them from the threat of further blackmail.

Monica serves as the personal assistant to Elizabeth Jessup, a prominent journalist, and the angel soon learns that her new assignment has a serious drinking problem.  At a birthday dinner for her granddaughter Beth, Liz has too much to drink, which prompts her own daughter Sydney to take the child home.  Soon afterwards, the newswoman makes a spectacle of herself while giving a speech at the Mayor’s Centennial kick-off.  This incident causes Sydney to stage an intervention for her mother with the help of Anita, a counselor at the New Hope Center.

But this action backfires and an enraged Liz orders her guests to leave.  The next day, Monica returns to work and learns that the journalist started drinking to fit in with her male counterparts.  The angel convinces her employer to visit the New Hope Center.  However, upon seeing Anita, Liz loses her temper and storms out of the building.  Although Sydney refuses to let Beth have contact with her grandmother, the child sneaks out to see Liz anyway.  While Beth is playing, Liz accidentally sets the house on fire with a cigarette.  Monica rescues the little girl, whose grandmother was too drunk to comprehend what happened.

At the hospital, an irate Sydney confronts her mother for leaving Beth inside the house to die.  Returning to the wreckage to find a music box her granddaughter cherishes, Liz encounters Monica, realizing the angel was the one who saved Beth.  Encouraged by Monica’s revelation, Liz returns to the New Hope Center and attends a counseling session where she learns that Sydney herself is a recovering alcoholic.

Cassie Peters is pregnant and plans to give her baby up for adoption.  Although neither Craig (the baby’s father) nor Joanne (Cassie’s mother) is present for the delivery, Monica is, posing as a nurse.  After holding her daughter, Cassie changes her mind and runs away, much to the chagrin of the Feldmans, the adoptive parents.

Monica and Tess are keeping watch over mother and child when they learn from Adam, the Angel of Death, that the child is seriously ill.  Monica gently prods Cassie to take the child to the hospital, where the teenager begins to realize she is not ready for the rigors of motherhood.  Monica’s revelation reinforces this fact, and Cassie returns home and returns the baby to the Feldmans.

At the infant dedication, Mrs. Feldman announces that she and Ben have named their baby Faith.  Cassie asks for a moment with her daughter and plays the flute for her–a legacy of music that runs in the family.

Monica serves as a legal assistant to a young lawyer, CHARLES HIBBERT (Peter Scolari). Charles mistakenly gives an inheritance to an eccentric young woman, ROBIN (Wendy McKenna) and must convince her to give it back. Charles is a hypochondriac with an imagined heart condition. Monica helps him to open his heart and he falls in love with Robin.

Monica and Tess arrange an accident on a deserted road for MEGAN (Nancy Allen) and SUSANA (Brooke Adams), two women involved with same man. The angels create an estate where the women and eventually Susana’s husband, JACK (Ed Marinaro) spend Thanksgiving together. The angels are assisted by Adam, the Angel-of-Death, who doesn’t have the heart to kill the turkey for dinner. Monica convinces Megan that she must find someone else and Tess convinces Jack to return to his marriage.

Monica and Tess are party coordinators for Harrison Trowbridge Archibald IV, a stuffy doctor whose wife, Barbara, and mother, Amelia, are planning a prestigious social event to commemorate a new hospital expansion named after their family.  They are in the midst of preparation when Manny arrives at their doorstep, claiming to be a child the Archibalds sponsor through Child Watch, a charitable organization.  Unable to have children of her own, Barbara welcomes him with open arms although her husband remains suspicious. 

Just as Harrison starts to bond with “Manny,” Monica learns the boy is not from Child Watch but is really Luis, a homeless child who lives under the hospital.  The angel reveals herself and urges him to tell the Archibalds the truth.  When he does, Harrison becomes irate and wants to throw Luis out of the house, but Barbara and Amelia convince the doctor to wait until after the party.  Tess, in turn, prods Amelia to tell her son the truth about his heritage:  not only are the Bowthorpes of Charleston really the Klumps of Bowthorpe, but Harrison’s real father was an Argentinean gardener who was kind to Amelia when she and her husband were experiencing marital difficulties. 

After the doctor announces that the hospital expansion will be simply called The Children’s Pavilion, he encounters Monica who delivers the message that God loves him for who he is, not for his name.  She then takes the doctor to Luis’ hiding place in the hospital basement.  Taking the child back home, Harrison and his wife decide to adopt him and become a family.

Three years ago, James Mackey defused a tense hostage situation by shooting the gunman who had fatally wounded James’ partner.  Now Monica is a journalist writing a story about the small-town sheriff and local hero.   Although a loving father, Mackey places intense pressure on his son, Matthew so he can gain admission to the U.S. Naval Academy.  Rather than risk not doing well, the boy cheats on a college entrance exam but gets caught.

Afraid of how his father will react, Matt attempts suicide.  While he is in a coma, Monica uses her angelic powers to talk to him and convince him to live.  She later helps Sheriff Mackey resolve his own inner torment:  his late partner, Nick Hanson, was the true hero in that hostage situation.  Mackey had frozen when they confronted the criminals, and Nick saved his life.  Monica convinces Mackey that God loves him regardless and is able to reunite father and son.

A small town church is putting on its Christmas pageant, and little SERENA (Ra’ven Kelly) desperately wants to be the angel. Her slightly retarded friend JOEY (Paul Wittenberg), must come to terms with the fact that Serena is dying of a heart condition. Joey is pathologically afraid of the dark–his parents went out into the night and never came back. Since then, his older brother WAYNE (Randy Travis) has been his caregiver, and resented it.

Monica reveals herself to Wayne, but he holds God responsible for his lousy life. When Serena dies the night of the pageant, Joey is led to the church by a bright star. Wayne is there, too. Monica takes Serena’s place as the angel in the pageant. When the rope supporting her breaks, Monica rises with glory and power and the entire congregation is awed by her angelic revelation and message: “Fear Not.”

Monica is stripped of her angel powers to help a proud, homeless man PETE (Gregory Harrison). She also befriends SOPHIE (Marion Ross) and ZACK (Malcolm Jamaal Warner) a Desert Storm vet. Monica realizes that she has stood in judgment on homeless people and after a prayer she washes Pete’s feet. Sophie is reunited with her family. Zack trades his Marine corp ring for Pete’s wife’s ashes and the money for a phone call home. With God’s help Pete is able to go to Colorado to spread his wife’s ashes.

Monica works as a personal assistant to radio personality Sandy Latham, who is renowned for her caustic rapport with listeners and her biting wit.  In that capacity, the angel hopes to repair Sandy’s relationship with Claire, who is continually mortified that her mother uses her as a pawn in the ratings battle.  Meanwhile, Tess joins Sandy as an on-air sidekick, encouraging her to be more supportive of her listeners and her daughter.

After Claire is humiliated by one of her mother’s stunts, the girl gets involved with a black-market CD scam to get money to run away from home.  Monica uses her angelic powers to protect Claire and reveals that she is never alone with her pain because God is there also.  Tess, likewise, reveals a similar message to Sandy, who is still recovering from her ex-husband’s infidelity.  The angels encourage mother and daughter to work through their pain.