Icons – Differentiating between viewing the current ‘item’ vs selecting an ‘item’

On a mobile app what would be the best way to differentiate between viewing a current 'item' vs selecting an 'item' using icons.

In my specific case, its for a religious app where the person counts each day towards a holiday and a religious text is said each day. They can either view the current days text or select a day from a number picker dialog box (so I don't want to have a single icon which contains both the number picker with an option for today as I don't want to add unnecessary complexity or the extra step of choosing a day as people will almost always want the current day).

As of now I just have it as a drop down menu which has 2 options saying 'Today's Text' and 'Select Day', but I would like to have icon only options for greater visibility/quicker access.