Compassion fatigue anyone?

Written a long time ago, in fact decades before the appearance of pandemic wall-to-wall, 24 hour  news coverage, this piece from the wise old head that was CS Lewis, is a helpful counter to the 'guilt' we often sense when overwhelmed with both an awareness of growing global needs (spiritual and physical) and our lack of resources to meet to rise to the challenge of such needs.  Lewis seems to be saying, if I understand him properly, that we respond to such needs by simply lovingly doing what God providentially enables us to do. He does not expect us to carry the crushing weight of the burdens of the world on our shoulders.  In faith, we leave that with Him... and then get on with life.  
Thanks for this Dane.  

Lewis, 1946 letter-- 

It is one of the evils of rapid diffusion of news that the sorrows of all the world come to us every morning. I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. (This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know.)

A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don't think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we're doing it, I think we're meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds' song and the frosty sunrise. 

--The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume 2 (ed. Walter Hooper; HarperCollins, 2004), 747-48; emphases original