Deliver us from evil

Update - just received a call from Bruce ... he has been released from the hole ! Thank you Jesus. And thanks to any and all who have lifted up prayers on his behalf. God has heard and answered prayers and to Him be the praise.
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Sometimes I wonder how far back visitors to this site go ... a couple posts, maybe 3 or 4 ? Perhaps I should link a few specific ones to the sidebar so that they are readily accessible. There are several I would like to remain front and center as much as possible.


I know I'm not alone in that I grieve heavily for our folk who are destitute, those who are in constant peril, those who daily suffer burdens unknown that the majority cannot even fathom. Although some would find this statement to be laughable or would belittle it in some fashion (and it matters not to me), I've lost a lot of sleep due to worrying for them. How can someone harden their heart and just not care ? I understand "you can't save the world", but does that make it any easier to co exist ? And I don't speak of the refuge who are receiving just what their actions have brought upon them but the innocents. The righteous will suffer to some extent right along with the wicked.


We all try and do what we can to help ... we are to hold our brothers and sisters in higher regard than even ourselves, being empathetic to their perils and hardships as if they were our own. It is a pleasure to me when I can assist our elderly in some fashion, when one can extend a hand to a young struggling couple or to be in the right place at the right time and possibly thwart what might of been a criminal act foisted upon them ... believing all the while that it was by God's grace that any of the above opportunities presented themselves to us. This decaying society is evil and though we must endure til it's torn down, we can separate ourselves to the best of our ability and look to one another for fellowship, care and comradery.


But what of those confined to a life of existance in the gulags, the modern day torture chambers that are far more tuned to torment than we can readily perceive ? If you've ever spoken with a prisoner, you have some small inkling of what they must undergo each and every day without fail. There is no need to mention certain of the torments for this is common knowledge and portrayed in a lackadaisical manner daily on the boob tube as if it were but a small matter and should be paid no mind. Modern prisons are a sadists best dream realized ... and the bastards will be called into account one day soon.


As mentioned, I've posted of our Christian brother, Bruce Pierce on here before but I want him front and center. I do not want him forgotten and by me he will not be. He will not discuss the hardships he faces .. but to some degree, I will. I've written him for quite some time, spoken with him on the phone and have been given permission to share his words and present condition. I'll also add some personal surmisings - on things he would never say (out of humbleness of heart) and those which it is certain he is not at liberty to do so.


Some might know that Bruce has been in the hole since January .. and his time for the infraction that got him placed there has already expired. But yet he has not been released back into the "compound" (his words), that is, open population. Solitude can be a respite at times, a relief from the constant stress of dealing with truly psychopathic elements that abound there. I've heard the background noise - the screaming, horns, loud speakers when talking to him. How does one retain sanity where even your senses are assaulted non stop ? But even chained in his solitary concrete hole he has no peace, for the screaming lunatics around him bang and clamour without ceasing 24/7. He tells me it brings back nightmares of his 10 years housed in Marion.


His infraction was that he refused to be bunked with 2 strangers in his cell and would have resisted by force if necessary. Why would they insist on this when other whites were available, as were other cells ? They know his religious beliefs and some seem to take sadistic pleasure in punching his buttons ... although his record shows no prior administrative problems whatsoever in 25 years. He is willing to suffer injustice to himself but not to dishonor his God or His Word. Yet he frets that he has failed God by his actions.


Bruce has suffered for some time with knee and shoulder problems and is in dire need of replacement. He is scheduled for transfer SOMETIME, soon they keep saying and he is hopeful he can get a medical placement ... but I'm certain he is apprehensive considering the second rate, indifferent care prisoners are sometimes known to receive. I know he desires the possibility that he can replenish his spiritual life, in the midst of a hopefully peaceful and quiet solitary hospital confinement (although it's not a certainty), with God - striving to become ever more Christ like. I'll tell you ... he operates on a plane few of us could comprehend or even know how to pursue. I do wonder where those 25 years would of left me.


I discern also a deep sadness, although he wont complain or say so in as many words. He hardly receives any mail and in the recent past when he still could call me, oft he was unable to due to lack of funds. I've done everything I could think of to lift his spirits, even telling him to request a song he'd like to hear and I'd play it over the line for him ... for he mentioned a few times missing music (although it would have to be 3 minutes at a time !). But I wonder sometimes if "just a taste" is worse than none at all ... whatever the blessing.


This call comes from me and not him - our brother needs us. He needs our support and our fellowship. This is not to discount our many brothers (and sisters) who are imprisoned also - we should do what we can because we do care and love them all. Some are eligible for release after a few years and likely will be let loose into the "free world", but unless God deems fit to intervene, Bruce will shoulder his load and never walk outside those walls again until it's in the restored kingdom. Twenty five years down, a couple hundred yet to go.


I can understand the hesitancy for some in corresponding with him, wanting to remain anonymous. In my case I willingly crossed that bridge many years ago, deeming concern for my brother of greater importance - Gods will will be done, but I've still duties to be about. If any others wish to write him, by all means do so ... bearing in mind it is maximum security and his letters are censored. Do not enclose anything other than your letter or printed (non glossy) pics and such. If any desire to put a gift into his account so that he may make small purchases of stamps, paper and the like .. a postal money order with his name and number on it can be sent anonymously (this is just a prisoner collection center that electronically credits their account). Again, put nothing else in here as he will never see this anyhow. Following are the two addresses -

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correspondance -

Bruce C. Pierce
# 04181085
USP Allenwood
P.O. Box 3000
White Deer, PA 17887

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Be sure to check this link before sending him any written mail to be certain he has not transferred -

http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=Pierce&Middle=&FirstName=Bruce+&Race=W&Sex=M&Age=&x=12&y=24

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Address for sending gifts (postal m.o.) -


Federal Bureau of Prisons
Bruce C. Pierce
# 04181085
P.O. Box 474701
Des Moines, Iowa
50947 - 0001

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Always keep brethren in our thoughts and prayers.



Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them ..
Hebrews 13:3



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