I would heartily support your effort at such a website. Liturgy and prayer, so central, receive great attention in our Church, but we also need to integrate the great grace we receive through these with every aspect of our lives, addressing soul, body, and spirit in all their outworkings. I wrote and M.A thesis on Orthodoxy and disability with the Antiochian House of Studies and was commissioned to follow it up with a website: http://armsopenwide.wordpress.com (Arms Open Wide: Orthodox Christian Disability Resources) My wife and I are houseparents of a group home. But that\'s only one type of disability. I try to explore others as well, but much of what I do is pretty general. I feel as though there are others who are touched by disability more personally than me that could contribute more.
I have a friend who has had a serious form of epilepsy. He took meds but it wasn\'t fully controlled. I\'ve been there for quite a few of his seizures. His life has lacked some basic supports most of us take for granted on top of his epilepsy. He\'s not Orthodox Christian, but he has faith in Christ and pretty much rolls with the punches, and he\'s had some very hard ones.
And so I very much am behind what you are considering doing. God bless, Ephrem
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