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This makes me feel happy. It reinforced what I already believed.

This video moved me a lot. Despite being nominally non-religious, I have a great deal of respect for the Shinto view of the world. It doesn't matter whether you assign a spiritual layer to nature, or regard it from a purely objective scientific view. At the end of the day, nature MUST be respected. So, so moved by this video.

It is interesting to learn about the Shintu beliefs. They are not so different from my own. I believe in God although I don't think of God as He or She. For me, God is both a mystery and my closest Friend. I feel near to God in nature. I feel His Majesty in the mountains. But for a mountain to exist there must be movements deep in the earth and these movements result in earthquakes and tsunamis. God is eternal - beyond our concepts of time and space. Both life and death belong to God. If we let God be God-sized then there is no question of blaming God for such things as earthquakes. We all are born, experience suffering at times and come to die. These are natural things. For me the fact that we care about each other, even about people we have never met, who live on the other side of the world, and feel compassion - which inspires us to do what we can to help the survivors of a disaster such as this, is 'proof of God.' Bur God is not something to be proved or disproved. It is in our love of God, our service to that of God in each other, that our relationship with God grows and fills our lives with peace, light and even in the face of disaster, with equanimity and happiness. I agree so uch with Akemi. Nature is mysterious. There is sadness. But that is not the end. There is much to be done while we are alive and we must never give up.
I see God's Light in all the religions. I love them all. I practise meditation and I love to sing devotional songs. I often feel God's Love and Blessings in my life.