Daily writing prompt

What quality do you value most in a friend?

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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.