More on breathing (updated)

Following on from my earlier post: 

I love my wife deeply, but with apologies to The Hollies, she cannot be the air that I breathe. I love our daughters, and our grandchildren light up our lives; I love my dear friends with whom I walk through life, but they cannot be the air that I breathe. I could lose all of them; their presence is a blessed circumstance in my life that I cannot fully control. I wouldn't willingly give up any of them, but I mustn't turn them into idols.

Likewise, my job is important for providing for my family, my exercise program takes care of my body, my hobbies keep my mind and body engaged. Yet all of these gifts cannot replace the Giver of them all, who alone can be the air I breathe, and who gives me every other means by which I breathe in his presence.

And there isn't a person in my life for whose sake I would not give up my place in their lives, if it would help them to breathe him in.

And to return to the Hollies, and give them their due: the song doesn't say that she is "the air that I breathe." It says, rather, "All I need is the air that I breathe and to love you."  Since they're obviously singing to a woman, as long as I'm referring to the presence of Christ as the air I breathe, I suppose I wouldn't have a problem with singing this.