Follow The Heart Of Your King

The name of this blog, which is Forward, has to do with the Scottish part of the family.
Forward is the english version of the Douglas clan's motto. "Jamais Arriere" as it appears in French on the crest, means "Never Behind".
Erwin Raphael McManus, the pastor of Mosaic Church, explains it better and in further detail in his book, The Barbarian Way.

 Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland requested that his heart be removed from his body and taken on a Crusade by a worthy knight. James Douglas, one of his closest friends, was at his bedside and took on the responsibility. The heart of Robert the Bruce was embalmed and placed in a small container that Douglas carried around his neck. In every battle Douglas fought, he literally carried the heart of his king pressed against his chest. In an ill-fated battle against the Muslim Moors, Douglas found
himself surrounded, with death a certainty. But, in that moment Douglas reached for the heart strapped around his neck, flung the heart into the enemy's midst, and cried out, "Fight for the heart of your king!" One historian quotes Douglas as shouting, "Forward, brave heart, as ever thou were wont to do, and Douglas will follow his king's heart or die!" The motto of the Douglas descendents to this day is "Forward."