Living in Joy as a Choice | The Group of 9 via Steve Rother

(Golden Age of Gaia)

By Steve Rother

https://www.steverother.org/beacons-of-light-december-2025/

Greetings, dear ones.

I am Elrah of Rhythmic Service. We join you this day with great joy, for humanity stands at the doorway of a new rhythm of being. Many of you have felt it already as excitement and restlessness, or even as a quiet inner knowing that life is no longer meant to move the way it once did.

Joy, dear ones, is not something that you must earn. It is not a reward at the end of a difficult journey, nor is it dependent on circumstances aligning perfectly. Joy is a choice. It is a frequency you allow yourself to tune into, moment by moment.

You have lived for a very long time within rhythms shaped by survival, repetition, and reaction. Those rhythms were necessary and they have served you well. However, energetically they were quite dense, slow, and heavy. Humanity is now learning to move in new rhythms that are lighter, faster, and more responsive to the heart.

This Is the Time of New Rhythms

A rhythm is simply a pattern of movement and energy. When you adjust your rhythm, life responds to you differently. Many of you try to change your life without adjusting your rhythm and that’s why it may feel as if you’re pushing against the current. Joy comes when you move with the current instead of resisting it.

Maintaining a higher frequency does not mean harder work on your part, it simply means achieving greater clarity. It’s less effort and more alignment. When you choose joy, you are not denying challenges. Instead, you are choosing the way that you meet life’s challenges. You are choosing to step into a rhythm where solutions appear more quickly, where synchronicity becomes common, and where grace replaces struggle.

Joy Is Contagious—Especially to Yourself

When you allow joy in your life, you send a signal through your entire system. Your body listens; your relationships listen; and your future listens. The universe responds to rhythm far more than it does in words or intentions, so this is why joy can change everything. It never needs to explain itself, for joy’s impact is felt in an instant.

Many of you were taught that joy must wait, because responsibility comes first. You learned that seriousness equals maturity, and happiness is incredibly fragile. But we tell you now, joy is resilient and intelligent. Joy is one of the most powerful stabilizing forces that you possess.

As you move into higher frequency rhythms, you may notice that old patterns no longer fit. What once motivated you may fall away, and those things that used to feel important may lose their charge. But this isn’t loss, dear ones, it is liberation. You are not becoming less—you are becoming more precise.

Living in joy does not mean living without depth, it means allowing depth to include light. Each of you is learning to conduct your own energy like a piece of music. When you rush, you distort the rhythm. When you resist, you slow it down. But when you listen—to your body, to your heart, to the subtle signals of alignment—you begin to move in harmony with life itself.

And here is what we wish you to know most of all: humanity is doing better than you think. The changes you see, the breaking down of old systems, the questioning of long-held beliefs, these are signs of awakening, not collapse. We realize it may feel uncomfortable, but new rhythms always arrive first as disruption.

There Is Great Hope Ahead if it is Chosen

You are not too late, you are not broken. No, you are not meant to live in constant effort. You are meant to live in resonance—with joy as your compass and love as your natural state. Choose joy, dear ones. Not because life is perfect, but because you are learning how to dance with it. Please treat each other with respect, nurture one another and play well together.

I am Elrah of Rhythmic Service.

Espavo