@hingehead,
Suppose you were actively searching for God, and taking a road trip to find him.
Are you expecting to see God as something like this?
No? Then, odds are, God will likely appear as one of the two.
1. The personification of Nature
If #1 is the case, you will likely see God in the beauty and majesty of the natural world.
2. The face of Creation itself, and all created people and things.
"Whenever two or three are gathered together..."
However, if you make this trip intending NOT to see God, you will use every
excuse imaginable to declare that you searched for God and didn't find him. Strange coincidences? Yeah,"Stuff just happens."
Suppose I made, not one but two trips, what do you think I would find? Well, I can tell you because I have made such trips. I indeed saw the beauty of nature, and I saw people and stuff doing all kinda coincidental things. It took awhile but I became convinced.
Suppose you take a trip across country, and by the roadside, you ask a lady, "I'm looking for God, where should I start?"
She'll tell you, "Start by looking in temples." So you visit every temple you come across. When you die, supposing an Afterlife, you ask them, "I visited every temple that I could think of, but I never saw You." And God will laugh, "I told you to visit temples."