"I should be very thankful," replied the woman.

"Then bring your basket." Quickly the basket was brought to the gate and passed in.

The owner took it and was gone a long time among the vines, till the woman became discouraged, thinking he was not coming again.
At last he returned with the basket heaped full.

"I have made you wait a good while," he said, "but you know the longer you have to wait, the better grapes and the more." So it sometimes is in prayer.

We bring our empty vessel to God and pass it over the gate of prayer to him.