Bruno the Lett asks:

“Did the apple from the tree fall to earth because God willed it?”

It would seem that there has to be the will of God (...simply because of “creation“). But it is this very same will that also allows our volition. (And yes, the apple did fall to earth thru the will of God. Well… at the very least by the “creation” of gravity!)
And as humans were meant to have minds, I wouldn’t know why so many previous apple fallings had gone unnoticed—- was it because fallen apples were merely deemed as just being too common ...? But then today, I would still first think of it as only being natural, as now I know of “gravity”.

Mikus E.

God is not the only being endowed with the talent of creativity.  So are humans - they are made in the image of God.  We prefer to plant in our gardens fragile flowers that succumb to insects, disease, or draught, yet we love them and rejoice in them when they bloom, and sorrow when they die.  Yet most of us refuse to plant plastic flowers the don’t wilt, that need no water or fertilizer, that are insect and animal resistant, that never die.  Thus, from our meager gift of creativity we can infer some idea of what God wants from us.