A Hickory Ridge Christmas. Dana Corbit

women turned to Tricia Williams Lancaster. Married just over a year to Michigan State Police Trooper Brett Lancaster, Tricia definitely still qualified as a newlywed, though she already had three children with her late first husband, Rusty.

      “I’ll be sure to keep that in mind,” Tricia said.

      Tricia turned her head as if in search of a new topic, and her face brightened as a square-jawed man with a military haircut and a football player’s shoulders squeezed through the doorway.

      “If that’s not Trooper Joe Rossetti in the flesh and in a church on a Sunday morning,” Tricia said with a grin. “God does work in mysterious ways.”