The Quality I Value Most in a Friend is True Greatness

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Making People Great

There's nothing great
About trying to create
Anger and hate.

There's nothing great
About wanting to escalate
Confusion and misunderstanding.

There's nothing great
About working to aggravate
And berate.

There's nothing great
When your main trait
Is wanting to agitate.

There's nothing great
About slamming the gate
Of your heart on people.

There's nothing great
About refusing to relate
With kindness and respect.

There's nothing great
About filling your slate
With constant accusations.

There's nothing great
About creating a state
Of hostility and bitterness.

There's nothing great
In causing a country to separate
Into a nation of blamers.

There's nothing great
When someone seems to advocate
Replacing debate with violence.

For a nation to be great
We need people who demonstrate
Character and integrity.

If you want to be great
Find ways to generate
Communication and understanding.

If you want to be great
Learn how to arbitrate
And find common ground.

If you want to be great
Open your heart to meditate
On ways to show kindness.

If you want to be great
It's important to graduate
From immaturity and self-focus.

If you want to be great
Formulate and communicate
Ways people can work together.

If you want to be great
Begin to fumigate
Your mind and heart from anger.

If you want to be great
Continually saturate
Yourself with inner peace.

If you want to be great
Absolutely refuse to replicate
Another person's bad example.

If you want to be great
Let Jesus Christ renovate
Your thoughts and emotions.

If you want to be great
Make every effort to radiate
The love of God.

The way to be great
Is to look straight
Into the eyes of Jesus.