God remains Creator, and we remain creature. I can make sense of this in only one way. God is love. Love is God's deepest and most enduring characteristic. There is nothing God does that is not loving.
All creation is an act of love.
And, God's greatest desire is that we return his love . We are created in God's image, so loving God back becomes our supreme and most human response. This gift of free will teaches us something about God that is huge, remarkable and surprising. God creates the world but does not remain in total control of it . In the midst of the act of creation, God takes on the risk of the existence of the human life that is free to go against God .