40 degrees Celsius in the 7 Streets of San Pedro Sula (Honduras). There is Darío Welcome with his small horchata business, Welcome Inversiones Inc., whose assets consist of: a table, a tablecloth, and a small cooler where he keeps the tiger nut milk. Darío has decided to follow an executive business dress code:

“I am the manager of my company. This desk and this thermos are my company, and I represent its image, which is why I always dress presentably, wearing a jacket and tie.”
Darío Welcome

It is worth defining what an entrepreneur is. And to do so, we will apply the insistent question that the people, the publicans, and the soldiers ask John the Baptist:

And what should we do?
(Lc 4, 12-14)

John the Baptist tells people to share what they have, and tells tax collectors and soldiers not to abuse their power. And surely Darío Welcome asked himself the same question: “What should I do?” given the reality that he had “no resources,” nothing. And he began “to do” by making tiger nut milk in his own home and selling it on a nearby street.

In life, there are times when we have to discard the wrong path we may be on. We need to ask ourselves, “Are we bearing the fruits that conversion requires?”
(Lc 3, 8)

In other words, choosing a different path from the one we were following. “What should we do?” Current psychology advises us to look in the mirror, smile at ourselves, value ourselves, and see ourselves and our potential as a model and treasure. And that seems to be what Darío Welcome does: “I see myself as an entrepreneur, this is my company, I have to see myself as such, and I have to work hard too.” This is the main idea that has been so successful in Honduras. This, then, would be the entrepreneur: someone who creates ideas to generate wealth.

When asked what he would say to young people who are distressed because they cannot find work, Darío replies:

It sounds contradictory that God gives you ideas to make money. However, Darío does not see money as an end, but as a means. That is why, at the beginning of his interview, he says: “Thank God for His grace, and for the many people who have decided to support me.” It is difficult to understand that God “has bestowed grace,” that the idea bank is in “grace.” However, here, in grace, is Darío’s true conversion and true baptism: that ‘grace’ has fallen upon his life and projects, or in the words of John the Baptist, “a baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire.”
(Lc, 3, 16)

The president of Honduras personally called Darío and said to him:

This is Juan Orlando Hernández. I am calling to congratulate you. I am happy to see you so enthusiastic. You are an example for all Hondurans. In the next few hours, you will receive visits from Banca Solidaria and other government programs that support entrepreneurs like you.
President of Honduras

And Darío replies:

I bless you. I know that God is doing great things through your life, and I decree in the name of Jesus Christ that God will bless you even more.
Darío Wellcome

It seems to me that Darío himself has just defined this “grace”: “that God is doing great things through his life.” Darío and his president have “grace” and faith. But John the Baptist already warns us: we must not take for granted the faith bequeathed to us by Abraham, the father of faith: “Do not delude yourselves by thinking, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children of Abraham from these stones” (Lk 3:8). Both Dario, in his small business, and Juan Orlando, in the great undertaking of leading a nation, God has managed to bring forth ideas, grace, and faith from stones.