Non-Believer

Sometimes I wish I believed in miracles... but I have trouble with miracles. I've hoped for miracles for a long time, and so far, I'm still waiting. I'm sure they do happen occasionally. I'm not talking about every day miracles (of which there are many) but about the kind that are really so far-fetched that they are tales for Ripley's Believe It Or Not or from some saint's biography. I'm sort of a realist-pragmatist-idealist, but not a miraclist. So what do you do when someone says they are anticipating just such a miracle? I guess smile and nod is all you can do... and hope they're right, but be prepared for the fact that they're not. Definitely don't want to have to be the one to say I told you so.