0090 Uncle and Aunt’s story
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| From | 📧 Bride and Groom |
| To | 📧 1st Trustee, 📧 2nd Trustee |
| Date | 3 May 2024 |
| Subject | Uncle and Aunt’s story |
Ref: 19841103 BT01 0090
1st Trustee and 2nd Trustee
Story
The Bride’s Uncle and Aunt, a middle aged couple, undertook the exhausting drive down the east coast to attend their niece’s wedding.
To see their niece married, meet her husband, their new nephew, and bless them in person, the Bride and Groom’s Uncle and Aunt put thought, time, effort and cost into:
- selecting a gift that would help their niece and nephew set up their house and life together as man and wife;
- selecting wrapping paper, ribbons and a card;
- writing a personal message and blessing in the card;
- the interstate road trip from Brisbane to Canberra;
- attending the wedding service and reception.
At the reception, they handed their carded, wrapped and packaged gift for their niece and nephew to you, the bride’s parents, for safekeeping; fully expecting you to hand their gift to their niece, as presented, for their niece and nephew to open and read the card, and unwrap, open and enjoy the gift.
You did not transfer title over to the Bride and Groom, that is their Uncle and Aunt’s card. You did not hand over to the Bride and Groom their Uncle and Aunt’s gift. You did not return their Uncle and Aunt’s card, and wrapped and packaged gift to their Uncle and Aunt. Therefore, you stole their Uncle and Aunt’s property.
That theft denied the Bride and Groom’s Uncle and Aunt their:
- acknowledgement of their gift;
- blessings and thankfulness;
- ongoing relationship with them.
The passage of time does not erase or diminish the theft, rather it compounds their Uncle and Aunt’s loss.
You are accountable for your trespass and the Bride and Groom seek restoration to close the trust on their Uncle and Aunt’s behalf.
To remedy the trespass and close the trust:
- transfer title, that is the card, to the Bride and Groom, and
- hand over their Uncle and Aunt’s packed and wrapped gift to the Bride and Groom; or
- restore the property to their Uncle and Aunt.
When this is not possible restore to the Bride and Groom sevenfold of the value of their Uncle and Aunt’s gift, adjusted for inflation.
Summary diagram
Trust details
| Created | 3 Nov 1984 at the Bride and Groom’s wedding. |
| Settlor | Uncle and Aunt, Queensland, Australia. |
| Property | Packaged, wrapped and carded wedding gift. |
| Intent | Bride and groom to receive and open packaged, wrapped and carded gift. |
| Beneficiaries | Bride and groom. |
| Trustees | Bride’s parents. |
| Purpose | To hold property on behalf of the beneficiaries. |
| Powers | No discretion and no active duties other than to transfer the property to the beneficiaries when requested. |
| Function | Merely the nominee of the beneficiaries. |
| Terminates | Upon transfer of title and property to the Bride and Groom. |
Do you really believe that?
Hebrews 3:12-19
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Galatians 4:16
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
The honourable thing is to fulfil the intents and purposes of the Bride and Groom’s guests. That is, the Bride and Groom read their cards, unwrap and open their gifts. It is unconscionable to withhold the Bride and Groom’s wedding gifts.
Bride