Interesting, I kinda felt that wonder and awe too. It took a while, but after maybe 6 weeks I found myself thinking in ways I hadn't thought in many years. I got some books on complexity theory, and spent a lot of time thinking about just *how* the first spark of life might have been lit. Walks took on meaning, I heard and smelled and saw things better and differently, it sorta scared me a bit because I felt like I was on some different plane. I chalked it up to a brain that was working and sensing normally for the first time in years, and to the fact that I had a lot of free time and energy (I was off work and in an IOP).
I don't personally believe in a god, but there are great mysteries in the universe that I'm sure I'll never understand. I'm a scientist, and we kinda get trained to just live with that, work on the things we might be able to understand and leave the other stuff to some future generation. But there's something much bigger and deeper going on.