Touched by this unusual display and the deep emotions it aroused, with eyes glistening she slipped her arms around her husband. One moment of wonder I remember was at the Royal Ontario Museum, where they have a relief sculpture of a lion that used to be in the throne room wall of King Nebuchadnezzar - the king Daniel dealt with in the Bible. A moment of Wonder. One of the greatest losses of today is that we are killing off wonder. It is denigrated by familiarity.
Wonder is lost in the mass produced world, where it is hard to find anything really unique.
Everything has a reasonable answer. Philosophers down through the age have remarked that if you lose your sense of wonder, at some level you have lost the spirit of life. The people who encountered Jesus were left astonished. But other things astonished as well. I'm sure we have all reflected at one time about what it would have been like to have been personally there when the blind were given sight, the lame made to walk, Lazarus raised from the dead.