This week I'm challenging us all to stop making life about being right and start making it about being loved and being loving.

I believe the real issues we face are all found in the nuclear core of the power of love activated inside us. But too often, we've let our culture devolve into division and fighting. I’m inspired by one of my favorite authors, Felicia Murrell, who writes:

“I think the broad sweeping generalizations on both sides are killing us all... As a society, we’ve made life about being right instead of being loved.”

We have all suffered from love deprivations—deficiencies of love that we’ve accommodated as normal. It leads to fighting, resentment, and a relentless need to prove a point.

But as Presiding Bishop Michael Curry says, this love thing is not owned or controlled by anyone: The source is God. No one votes it in or out.

I'm calling on you to join me in the relentless pursuit of love.

• Confront your deprivations and recognize where love has been withheld.

• Practice the Love's Creed to keep love on your daily to-do list.

• Be courageous and disrupt the awkwardness by saying the three most holy words: I love you.

Let’s turn this anxious ship around, folks! It's going to take all of us to change the world, one breath and one act of love at a time.

Are you ready to join me and make the U-turn: stopping the fight to be right and starting the work of being loved?