It is logically impossible to have both, so you must pick one.
First, "Everything Happens For A Reason" for this question is defined as "everything is planned by an external source". For example, you might be late for an appointment, and end up meeting your future spouse. You believe the "reason" you were late was so you could meet your spouse. This would indicate that some external force ("god") planned it this way.
Problem is, in order for "Everything" to happen for a reason, then literally everything has to be controlled. Again, you were late for the appointment because traffic was bad. Each of those drivers had to be in that place at that time to make traffic bad. They had to wake at a certain time, so they had to go to bed at a certain time, all the way back to being born at a certain time, all the way back through time.
In this case, there can be no Free Will. It is impossible. Conversely, if you insist there is Free Will, then there is no "Reason" for everything.
2007-04-15
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