Why is silence so hard to deal with? Why is it so much easier for us to live our lives with a lot of things going on all the time than to just be in silence? Weŕe constantly surrounded with "voices" that are influencing us on how to think, feel, and behave. Movies, music, TV, Internet, cell phones, and a never-ending barrage of advertising. Thereś always something going on. Always noise in our lives. But maybe thereś a connection between the amount of noise in our lives and our inability to hear God. If God sometimes feels distant to us, maybe itś not because heś not talking to us, but simply because we arent́ really listening. NOOMA is a new format for spiritual direction. It is short films touching on issues that we care about, that we want to talk about, and it comes in a way that fits our world. It's a format that's there for us when we need it, as we need it, how we need it..