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"What I’m Breathing For" by Shoshan Dunamis: The Only Love That Truly Fills


Who is the air you breathe?

“What I’m Breathing For” by Shoshan Dunamis is about the passion she has for her faith. “They say love is in the air.” You hear it in films, in playlists, in every glossy promise of fulfillment. Shoshan answers this with four words: “but I don’t care.”

Shoshan Dunamis - What I'm breathing forWhy so bold? She found what the world’s version of love can’t deliver. Shoshan grew up bilingual in Germany and speaks mostly German, yet her spiritual language is English. She prays in English. She writes only English Christian songs. Her faith has its own voice, and she chose it. She chose her love the same way. Desire and emotion get sold as fulfillment, but for her there is only one relationship that truly satisfies: Jesus Christ.

Listen to her loyalty in the verse. Signs and possibilities track her down, but she says, “I don’t need nobody else.” She stays “loyal to the one only.” That isn’t stubbornness. It’s a heart that remembers where love came from.

The psalmist sang the same devotion thousands of years ago. “Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.” Asaph wrote those words in Psalm 73 after watching others prosper while he struggled. Then he walked into God’s presence and saw clearly.
What are you chasing right now? Approval, comfort, a feeling that never lasts? Name it honestly. Then ask yourself whether it can carry the weight you keep placing on it.

Try this today. Pause three times and breathe a short prayer. Say “Amen” and hand your longing back to Jesus. Show up for Him first. You were made for a Love that comes from above, and you are free to turn down every substitute.

Give “What I’m Breathing For” a listen, and let the chorus become your prayer. “You’re the hope I need, the air I breathe.”

(Related scripture: Psalm 73:25; Psalm 63:3; John 6:68)

Background:

This song is about the passion I have for my faith. It’s about all the things that are portrayed in the world as “love”: desire and emotions that are presented as something fulfilling. But from my perspective, there’s only one thing that’s truly fulfilling, and that’s my relationship with Jesus Christ—and that’s what I define as love.

A basic fun fact about me and my music is that I grew up bilingual, have always lived in Germany—except for six years—and have always spoken mostly German. However, my spiritual language is English. That’s why I write only English-language Christian songs. I pray mostly in English and enjoy listening to sermons in English.

Release date: October 16, 2026

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