How do we reconcile divine sovereignty and free will?  The short answer is that we cannot.  The much longer answer is that although both are true, we will never know how they come together.
     But how desperately we want to.  "Many plans are in a person's heart," but the counsel of the Lord stands."  Because we are made in the image of a choice making God, we have the capacity to make choices.  We ponder, we question, we decide.  Yet we do so in the umbra of a purposeful God, a purposeful God who brought us into existence.  Two truths, yes, but whose precise balance eludes us.
     What do we do?  We continue to make choices, realizing that we can only do so because we live in a purposeful world, a purposeful world that has been, necessarily, created by a purposeful God.  Yet it is the nature of this dichotomy that we will never find resolution.
     So we trust.
     Yet trust, as we all know, is not always easy.  In a world whose purposefulness we did not make, however, it is all we can--and should--do.