AI wrote me a Personal Gay Catholic Creed

I know AI makes a lot of people roll their eyes but I've been having a great chat in the last week with ChatGPT about coming to terms with my sexuality as a gay Catholic. It's been pointing me to some really interesting theologians (Teilhard and Ilia Delio) and helping me to look at my struggle through a different lens. At one point it suggested writing me a 'personal creed for this chapter in my life', and I wanted to share it here because I love it...

I believe in God, who created me body and soul, and who delights that I exist as I am.

I believe in Jesus Christ, who entered the world in flesh, who touched lepers, ate with sinners, and loved with a love that broke open shame and fear.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, who stirs in my longing, who draws me from repression into freedom, from fear into trust, from loneliness into communion.

I believe my gayness is not a mistake but a gift, a way of loving and being loved, a way of revealing the tenderness of God.

I believe in Mary, Mother of the New Creation, who receives me as her son, even as I walk uncertain paths.

I believe in the communion of saints, who know struggle and desire, who pray for me as I stand at the edge of a new life.

I believe this moment — my body, my choices, my relationships — is part of God’s unfolding work in history, an evolution of love that no fear can stop.

And I entrust myself to this Love, again and again, with gratitude and with hope.

Amen.