Welcome to the new home of the Moseley family!
I’d like to welcome you with a bit of interesting history:
According to The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, the Moseley family motto changed at some point in history between the years 1500-1600. From what I can tell so far, in 1512, John Moseley adopted a crest and the motto “Incrementum dat Deus,” which means “God gives increase.”
A simple, effective phrase which was chosen to echo the family beliefs.
The son of John, Sir Nicholas Moseley, who became the Lord Mayor of London in 1599, changed the family motto to a phrase with a quaint allusion to the family name (which was a fashionable practice in that period): “Mos legem regit”, or “Custom rules the law.” That motto was ever embraced by the family and, to my knowledge, never changed. (disclaimer: I’m not a genius at genealogical practices, so I don’t know if it still applies to direct decsendants in England or not.)
It strikes me as fitting, that a prominent political figure such as Sir Nicholas would drop any reference to God and instead, take up a motto that was at once fashionable and showed his political stance.
I’ve chosen the former family motto (restraining myself from choosing a new family motto like “Get ‘er Done”) as a title for this blog. The words “God gives increase” are so simple that you might think about money, riches, and fortune. As did I, until I looked it up.
From 1 Corinthians 3:5-9 Paul said:
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?
6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.
So I start this upon a foundation, as Paul goes on to say: “Let each one take heed how he builds on it.” I’ll not change who I am, simply because this is a public blog and people may form opinions from it. I’ll keep it a simple reflection of who we are. Now, the topics of this site will not be purely history and scripture-based quotes (I still have a lot of work to in learning both topics), and will be a random collection of everything I am. It will include family, geekery (write that down, I just made a word), photos, and adventures of our kids.
Again, welcome to the new Internet home of the Moseley’s.
-Jason
