"Those Dear To God Want Nothing"

"Cari Deo nihilo careat." That is supposed to be our Wik family motto. (I expected to see at least one cat on our family crest!) The implication is that the Wik family is dear to God and thus don't want anything. Nice motto, bad theology, and it has nothing to do with my family as my paternal ancestors came from Sweden, not from England. Our family's name was originally Mard (anglicized to Martin), but was changed to Vik in the middle 1800s and then morphed to Wik a generation later. It's all described in here.