Disdain is the most childish response to the reality of miracles. Facing them sincerely is an unparalleled exercise in humility, which imposes an awareness of insignificance and vulnerability that is foreign to modern presumption. In fact, to face them sincerely is to run the risk of slipping into a state of paralysis, perhaps discouragement, in the face of the irrefutable confrontation between what there is and what one is.