I Cor 3:6
I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.
Recently, a translator posted this story because it occurred to him, that in PNG, the act of watering your garden is non-existant.
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In almost every part of this country (except for a very few areas like the rain shadow area around Port Moresby, where they in fact have to import produce from the highlands) people have to make ditches, drains, and mounds in order to get rid of excess water.
During the big El Niño drought of 1997, an Australian support worker at Ukarumpa advised her village friend whose garden was right by the river, to get a bucket of water from what was left of the river, and pour a bit of water at the base of each plant in her garden. The local woman responded with surprise - such a thought had never occurred to her!
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Here people don't water their garden because of the excessive rain. They plant something, and it just grows. But then again, in our home country, you don't burn away the tall grass (kunai) to make a place to plant. They till the soil by hand after burning away brush and chopping trees down. The place once called 'lone tree' (because it had a single tree on top of the hill) now has hundreds of trees.
Things grow quickly and easily here.
I thought it an interesting translation to culture dilemma.
