40 degrees Celsius in the 7 Streets of San Pedro Sula (Honduras). There is Dar\u00edo 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. Dar\u00edo has decided to follow an executive business dress code:<\/p>\n\n
\n“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.” Dar\u00edo Welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nIt 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: <\/p>\n\n
\nAnd what should we do? (Lc 4, 12-14)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nJohn the Baptist tells people to share what they have, and tells tax collectors and soldiers not to abuse their power. And surely Dar\u00edo Welcome asked himself the same question: \u201cWhat should I do?\u201d given the reality that he had \u201cno resources,\u201d nothing. And he began \u201cto do\u201d by making tiger nut milk in his own home and selling it on a nearby street. <\/p>\n\n
\nIn life, there are times when we have to discard the wrong path we may be on. We need to ask ourselves, \u201cAre we bearing the fruits that conversion requires?\u201d (Lc 3, 8)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nIn other words, choosing a different path from the one we were following. \u201cWhat should we do?\u201d 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 Dar\u00edo Welcome does: \u201cI see myself as an entrepreneur, this is my company, I have to see myself as such, and I have to work hard too.\u201d 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. <\/p>\n\n
When asked what he would say to young people who are distressed because they cannot find work, Dar\u00edo replies:<\/p>\n\n
\nIt sounds contradictory that God gives you ideas to make money. However, Dar\u00edo does not see money as an end, but as a means. That is why, at the beginning of his interview, he says: \u201cThank God for His grace, and for the many people who have decided to support me.\u201d It is difficult to understand that God \u201chas bestowed grace,\u201d that the idea bank is in \u201cgrace.\u201d However, here, in grace, is Dar\u00edo’s true conversion and true baptism: that \u2018grace\u2019 has fallen upon his life and projects, or in the words of John the Baptist, \u201ca baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire.\u201d<\/strong> (Lc, 3, 16)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nThe president of Honduras personally called Dar\u00edo and said to him:<\/p>\n\n
\nThis is Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez. 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<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nAnd Dar\u00edo replies:<\/p>\n\n
\nI 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. Dar\u00edo Wellcome<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nIt seems to me that Dar\u00edo himself has just defined this \u201cgrace\u201d<\/em>:<\/strong> \u201cthat God is doing great things through his life.\u201d Dar\u00edo and his president have \u201cgrace\u201d 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: \u201cDo not delude yourselves by thinking, \u2018We have Abraham as our father,\u2019 for I tell you that God is able to raise up children of Abraham from these stones\u201d (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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"40 degrees Celsius in the 7 Streets of San Pedro Sula (Honduras). There is Dar\u00edo Welcome…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdbible.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdbible.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdbible.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdbible.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdbible.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fdbible.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5763,"href":"https:\/\/fdbible.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions\/5763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdbible.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdbible.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdbible.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdbible.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}