Free will/Sovereignty

While it's important to reach out to others, to do what we can to help and guide, each person makes choices for himself or herself and they carry consequences that each one is responsible for. Those choices seem to have little to do, really, ultimately, with circumstances, though much to do w/ the individual and w/ the hand of God.
From the dawn of time man has been puzzling out the connection between man's responsibility, free will and God's sovereignty, how they work together, if it's possible for both to be true. I've not solved this puzzle and defy anyone who believes to have solved it. But there is really comfort and stability in the inexplicable way they do coexist. It's frightening to deny the power and need of choice to do right and even more frightening to belittle the great strength and omnipotence of God. I find in this paradox truth and joy, a natural combination.