The All Powerful Bell Curve

What do you think when I mention bell curve? Is it just another business concept to you or does it have deeper meaning? At the risk of sounding weird, I'll say that it has deeper meaning for me.

In the working world, the shape of the curve is a graphical representation of a business process' behavior. Why can't it also serve as a model for our lives? Please, indulge me.

The bell curve is symmetrical about a middle point. There is equal weight on the right and left. If you measure a large quantity of a process’ output and a histogram of the data is bell shaped, the expectation, over time, is the process will be balanced at this middle point. This point can be compared to a target value to learn if the process is running on or off target.

For life, we need this point of balance. Without it, we drift too far right or left. These drifts can be disastrous or hazardous to health. They may affect or destroy families. God’s first commandment is “You shall have no other gods before Me”. These "other gods" are anything we put before God: money, work, etc.. If we break this commandment (or others), we lack a balance point. We let a source pull us and soon our priorities are not in the correct order.